GitHub Profile

A Github profile is a great way to showcase your work and skills to potential employers. You can show off your projects, contributions to open source, and your coding style. As a software engineer, it's a way of showcasing your coding skills. As Designers have portfolios to showcase their work, software engineers should have Github profiles.

Github has a default repository that is named the same as your user name, this repository is your profile repository, which can consist of just a README file. You can also pin repositories to your profile to showcase your best work.

Create Profile Repository

1. Go to your Github profile.
2. Click on the Repositories tab.
3. Click on the New button.
4. Name the repository the same as your username.
5. Add a README file to the repository.
6. Add a description to the README file.
7. Click on the Create repository button.
8. You can now add content to your profile repository.
9. You can also pin repositories to your profile.
10. Publish your README file.

Navigate to your profile in Github and you can see the changes in your profile.

Resources

• Show Github Profile Stats
• Setting Up A Github Profile
• Github Streak Stats
• Github Language Stats
• Display Latest Blog Posts
• Awesome Github Repos