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What a developer portfolio should prove

A practical checklist for turning a portfolio from a visual gallery into evidence of engineering judgment.

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A strong developer portfolio should answer three questions quickly: what you build, how you think, and how someone can work with you.

The homepage needs a direct position statement, selected work, visible technical strengths, and a contact path. Project pages should read like compact case studies with context, decisions, constraints, and outcomes.

For search, the basics matter most: unique titles, useful descriptions, canonical URLs, internal links, crawlable pages, structured data, and a sitemap that only includes pages you actually want indexed.