QuickPortfolio

"QuickPortfolio" is a platform for early-career computing professionals to easily create a portfolio that showcases their projects, their problem-solving process, and artifacts of work to potential employers. Our lab cohort will have the opportunity to explore or specialize in design, frontends, backends, databases, and infrastructure depending on their interests. Additionally, participants have ownership of the project, and are encouraged to work towards a project that meets their own needs.

A strong online presence is valuable for a computing professional looking for a job to showcase their skills and possible work experience, creating an experience that sells the individual's skills and abilities.

Portfolios should feature a small number of curated projects to showcase accomplishments, "lessons learned," and artifacts of work. These projects could be from classes, personal projects, volunteering, internships, etc.


# Existing Solutions

LinkedIn is a useful networking tool, but it is not an effective portfolio. Frontend developers can build their own portfolios from scratch, but other computing professionals (backend, data science, etc.) maybe can not. Website builders exist, but they are very general and not always well-suited towards showcasing code, data, screenshots, etc.

This creates an opportunity: computing professionals are missing a quick tool to build a shareable portfolio of their work, without needing to code, without needing to navigate a drag-and-drop interface, and while following "best practices" for effective portfolio structure.

CodeDay Labs team in the advanced track.