A code portfolio as part of your resume

blargoe

Is anyone here (speaking primarily to sysadmins/engineers) putting themselves out there on sites like Technet or GitHub to show off your scripting projects?

My regional VMUG meeting had a "career counseling" corner, and during my session, this was presented to me a missing piece of my "story", and it was suggested that I start showing off my work as I work on marketing myself toward whatever my next role will be, and could serve as a jumping off point for networking with other like minded engineers working on the same types of solutions. Makes perfect sense; I had never given this more than a passing thought in the past.

Anyone have any thoughts/experiences they'd like to share?

TomkoTech

If you have any original scripts sure. But anything "original" for me would be proprietary to my current employer and they wouldn't be okay with me sending that around.

Most redundant stuff I just use scripts someone else has made and modified for my use. I wouldn't feel comfortable passing those off as "original" work.

JoJoCal19

I actually think it's a great piece, and especially for someone like myself that works in InfoSec. I know on the InfoSec side, more and more jobs are asking for or requiring scripting and/or programming abilities even at en entry level. Usually bash/python + Java/C/etc. I am going to be learning bash and python later this year and will definitely be starting a Git account and posting a link to my portfolio on my LinkedIn and resume.

DoubleNNs

I have a GitHub account. It doesn't have anything impressive, because a lot of the scripts I make are for work (just as TomkoTech mentioned). However, you can abstract a lot of the smaller scripts you make at work and remove any proprietary info from them and post them - just as long as they aren't full on programs.

I think having a GitHub link on a resume/LinkedIn is invaluable. I plan to start working on a few more personal projects and start including a link soon.

Let me know if any of you want to collaborate on any Python, Bash, or Golang projects

ITSpectre

A friend of mine has his linkedin with his github and technet stuff. That is more for LinkedIn though, you can link your work to your profile. The reason why is most employers/recruiters look at your LinkedIn before they even call you....

blargoe

Yeah, that's sort of where I am, I thrown together a lot of code to pull information from systems, or to solve a problem, or to automate manual processes. Some of it I have gradually refined into a more elegant script, and in a few cases I have gone back and started to turn my most used functions into more modular, portable code in the case of my Powershell work. Generalizing things (and pulling out proprietary company specific info) is kind of a pain, though.