Show your Backend Engineering Skills To Recruiters - Building a Full Backend Portfolio

A lot of you guys ask me this question. “I have experience but not sure how to show it, how do I build my backend portfolio such that I can get hired in my dream job. “ Building a backend portfolio takes time and effort and In this video, I will be discussing 9 tools that you can include to your swiss army knife to build a full backend portfolio.

0:00 Intro
* Live Projects 1:50
* System Design Documents 3:45
* Architectural/System Design Diagrams 5:45
* UX/UI (in case of frontend) 7:13
* Papers 8:30
* Books 9:50
* Blog articles 10:55
* Videos 12:44
* Podcast 14:45
* Summary 15:45

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[iamunknownperiod]

OH SHT U READ MY MIND. THAT'S WHAT I WAS SEARCHING FOR THIESE PAST DAYS. Frontend devs has a straightforward way of showing their work but idk how to do it with backend.

[yazidkrayem]

In a way, we know all about these skills "BUT", it's a prove to hear from an expert engineer. Thank you

[cBake]

Thats super cool that you specialize in GIS. One of my first real jobs in tech, I was hired to build a social media platform for building communities around businesses. One of the main features was to have businesses be searchable by location. I used Postgres with PostGIS to store my data which I got from the google maps api for the address of the business doing reverse lookup. Used that to create a query that returned all locations from our system within a given distance radius and pinned those to an interactive Google Map. Considering that I was solo and very much a junior dev at that time I will always be proud of it.

[vladmorevlad]

buddy thank you for what you bring to the community. You are amazing and your work is greatly appreciated. May you have peace and prosperity in your life <3

[frankcasanova]

i think the most valuable thing in this video is the part where he talked about documentation, but all contens of the video have awesome tips i think <3

[NormandoHall]

As Argentinian watcher of you channel (and developer of course), the best you have is your non native english pronunciation. It's perfect for non english speakers like me (spanish language). Thanks for your advices!

[jithin_zac]

I was always looking for this. Thanks a ton ❤️!!

[ismailnurudeen]

* Live Projects
* System Documents/Design
* Blog Articles
* Tech Talks (I think you forgot this one 🙂)

I think I'm gonna focus on the above to build and improve my portfolio.

Really great video btw. 👍🏾 👏🏾

[KajalSomaiya]

This is soooo good..
I am glad you put it all together!

[wisdompeters]

you literally just pulled me out from a realm of perplexities!!! just starting out, and lately I don't really know how to go about it, but with this mini-roadmap you spilled out, oh boy! I'm like 70% relieved and revived. Thank you so much sir for this eye-opening golden information.

[rajdeeppurkayastha]

Every video I watch on this channel. I take away something useful. Thank you 🙏

[ayusharora]

Big fan, watched most of your videos !! Just followed you on Linkedin. I am a full stack developer, focussing majorly on backend. Want to become like you someday.

[eugeneyap]

Really nice advice, sounds pretty realistic too. I'm currently looking to switch career from testing to development, and hopefully your method of building portfolio can get me to places =)

[withincity]

To do all of these, after 9-6 job, you need lots of energy/good health. How do you manage that? What's the impact on social activities?

[iQatif]

Bro. Hussain,

In the lately of '80s, We improved our skills depending on writing drafts along with purchasing cassette tapes, watching VHS or purchasing Books from overseas countries. but the most systematic part was exchanging skills and abilities with friends and experts locally.
Unlike these days, Sharing knowledge and demonstrating skills become very easy now. however, and believe me, on this one, the most important part of these skills and talented people are hidden from us. they can not share their abilities and show them to the public, and they have their reasons,
either they do not have time or because of terms of the confidentially related to their job in the company they working with.
We all aware and deeply know technologies are growing and changing very fast as well as technology companies are racing and competing with each other.

You're absolutely right Abu Ali, indeed and that's how things should go.

شكرا لك اخي الكريم

[nglogic]

Good examples of documents are srs (system requirenments specification) and sds (system design specification)

[ashtarpaniagua]

Great video, thank you for this. I’m going to focus on live projects, design / specification documents, and blog articles. Cheers!

[ekhatordennisikponwosa]

Now i see the importance of UX and UI diagrams, wireframes etc in back end coding. Thank you

[francksgenlecroyant]

One of the few guys who deserves my like and comment, Hussein Nasser. Thank you bro!

[JagjitBrawler]

“Lotta people use UML, if you’re into kinky things”

Literally burst out laughing rofl