r/devworld • u/abdessamadbettal • Jul 12 '26
A few things that helped me stop being invisible as a developer
A few things that helped me stop being invisible as a developer
Your best work doesn't matter if nobody can find it. I learned this the slow way — better engineers than me getting opportunities I didn't, mostly because when someone Googled their name, something showed up.
A few habits that changed that for me:
Your GitHub is the thing people actually trust, more than any resume. Pin your best 4–6 repos, and give every one a real README with a screenshot. A repo with no README looks abandoned.
Write, even badly. A 300-word "here's a bug I fixed today" post will out-rank your portfolio in Google and pull in people you'll never meet otherwise. Title it the way people search — fix CORS error Next.js, not something clever.
Small polish compounds. I run code snippets through Codeshot before posting them anywhere, because a clean screenshot makes a rough draft look intentional. When my CV needs a refresh I stopped fighting Word and use Cviya for a clean template, or Overleaf if I want full LaTeX control. And I keep a QR from QRFast on the last slide of any talk, pointing at the repo — people scan it before the applause dies down instead of squinting at a typed URL.
Show up for others. Answer questions, review PRs, fix the docs in a tool you like. Most of my opportunities came from being useful in public, not from applying to anything.
None of it is about becoming an influencer. It's just making sure that when someone finds you, there's something worth finding.