Find a Job

Building a proper portfolio

Introduction

Job hunting as a software professional can become overwhelming. Between finding roles where a candidate may find alignment, tracking applications, researching companies, cover-letter writing, and organizing interview feedback, the process often feels like a full-time job itself.

To complicate things, many developers(like myself) have developed a lot of skills that don't have a proper outlet for demonstration.

This series will focus on building a proper portfolio that showcases the skills required.

Goals

Digitally assisted development tooling

Where practical, AI technologies enhance development productivity.

Tools to Explore:

• Spec-kit
• Claude Code Project Management

Skills demonstration

• Delivery Automation Expertise: Showcase ability to design and implement robust CI/CD pipelines using GitOps best practices
• Maintenance and Scalability: illustrate best practices in writing maintainable and scalable code
• Infrastructure as Code: Highlight skills in using IaC tools to manage cloud infrastructure
• Developer Experience: Highlight drive to create tools and solutions that enhance developer productivity and satisfaction
• Open Source Contribution: Build and contribute to open source projects that solve real-world problems

Finding the right job

Using automation to streamline the job search process itself:

• Job Search Automation: Develop scripts or tools to automate job searching, application submissions, and tracking.
• Interview Preparation: Create a system to organize and review common
• Cover Letter and Resume Customization: Use AI to tailor application materials for specific roles and companies.

Solution

1. Open source software delivery platform

A comprehensive platform that automates the entire software delivery lifecycle. It will include features such as:

• Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines
• Automated testing frameworks
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates for cloud deployments
• Monitoring and alerting systems
• Extensibility model for cloud-agnosticism

2. A job seeking automation toolkit

• Job Requisition Tracker: A tool to automate collection of job postings from leading platforms and track application statuses.
• Resume and Cover Letter Generator: An AI-powered tool to customize resumes and cover letters for specific

Appendix

Tools and concepts

• CI/CD Tools

  • GitHub Actions
  • Dagger
  • Argo CD
  • Argo Rollouts
  • AWS CodePipeline
  • AWS CodeBuild

• Infrastructure as Code

  • Terraform
  • Kustomize
  • AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK)

• Cloud Platforms

  • AWS
  • Kubernetes
  • WASMcloud
  • Durable Workflow Engines (One of:)
    • Temporal
    • Inngest
    • DBOS

• Programming Language

  • TypeScript
  • Go
  • Python

• Miscellaneous

  • Grafana
  • Devbox(Nix)
  • DevContainers
  • Backstage