Show your Backend Engineering Skills To Recruiters - Building a Full Backend Portfolio

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A lot of you guys ask me this question. “I have experience but not sure how to show it, how do I build my backend portfolio such that I can get hired in my dream job. “ Building a backend portfolio takes time and effort and In this video, I will be discussing 9 tools that you can include to your swiss army knife to build a full backend portfolio.
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* System Design Documents 3:45
* Architectural/System Design Diagrams 5:45
* UX/UI (in case of frontend) 7:13
* Papers 8:30
* Books 9:50
* Blog articles 10:55
* Videos 12:44
* Podcast 14:45
* Summary 15:45
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  • @vladmorevlad2232
    @vladmorevlad22323 жыл бұрын

    buddy thank you for what you bring to the community. You are amazing and your work is greatly appreciated. May you have peace and prosperity in your life

  • @iamunknownperiod3355
    @iamunknownperiod33553 жыл бұрын

    OH SHT U READ MY MIND. THAT'S WHAT I WAS SEARCHING FOR THIESE PAST DAYS. Frontend devs has a straightforward way of showing their work but idk how to do it with backend.

  • @rayaanhussain7279

    @rayaanhussain7279

    3 жыл бұрын

    literally same.

  • @watchocho2660

    @watchocho2660

    3 жыл бұрын

    Frontend is a mess.

  • @TheLostBijou

    @TheLostBijou

    3 жыл бұрын

    Watchocho, yeah it is a mess - but a very visual mess. its a lot harder to get the Ooo-aahh! effect with backend stuff.

  • @vishalnarang2704

    @vishalnarang2704

    2 жыл бұрын

    #youtubealgorithms

  • @cBake0
    @cBake03 жыл бұрын

    Thats super cool that you specialize in GIS. One of my first real jobs in tech, I was hired to build a social media platform for building communities around businesses. One of the main features was to have businesses be searchable by location. I used Postgres with PostGIS to store my data which I got from the google maps api for the address of the business doing reverse lookup. Used that to create a query that returned all locations from our system within a given distance radius and pinned those to an interactive Google Map. Considering that I was solo and very much a junior dev at that time I will always be proud of it.

  • @PranayAnkit
    @PranayAnkit3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for making this video. I was always confused about showing my work, now I finally have the direction where I should proceed.

  • @KajalSomaiya
    @KajalSomaiya3 жыл бұрын

    This is soooo good.. I am glad you put it all together!

  • @jithin_zac
    @jithin_zac3 жыл бұрын

    I was always looking for this. Thanks a ton ❤️!!

  • @mona.supremacy
    @mona.supremacy3 жыл бұрын

    I was thinking about following exactly the same (except for diagrams) steps and this video has doubled my certainty. Thank you

  • @francksgenlecroyant
    @francksgenlecroyant2 жыл бұрын

    One of the few guys who deserves my like and comment, Hussein Nasser. Thank you bro!

  • @yazidkrayem7408
    @yazidkrayem74083 жыл бұрын

    In a way, we know all about these skills "BUT", it's a prove to hear from an expert engineer. Thank you

  • @ashtarpaniagua4732
    @ashtarpaniagua47323 жыл бұрын

    Great video, thank you for this. I’m going to focus on live projects, design / specification documents, and blog articles. Cheers!

  • @wisdompeters4521
    @wisdompeters4521Ай бұрын

    you literally just pulled me out from a realm of perplexities!!! just starting out, and lately I don't really know how to go about it, but with this mini-roadmap you spilled out, oh boy! I'm like 70% relieved and revived. Thank you so much sir for this eye-opening golden information.

  • @ashwanigupta5412
    @ashwanigupta54123 жыл бұрын

    This is gold. Thanks Hussein!

  • @sudo_garrett
    @sudo_garrett2 жыл бұрын

    this video is fucking amazing. super underrated. i haven’t found this insightful information anywhere else. thank you.

  • @OthmanSO
    @OthmanSO Жыл бұрын

    really nice work I like how much effort you put in this

  • @techtalk668
    @techtalk6682 жыл бұрын

    Thanks @'Hussein for such awesome content, i could watch it for hours.

  • @rajdeeppurkayastha3287
    @rajdeeppurkayastha32873 жыл бұрын

    Every video I watch on this channel. I take away something useful. Thank you 🙏

  • @hnasr

    @hnasr

    3 жыл бұрын

    Glad to hear that ❤️

  • @vaibhavgupta5022
    @vaibhavgupta50223 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for another great video Hussein.

  • @prabhatyadav8189
    @prabhatyadav81893 жыл бұрын

    Great...video brother....such a comprehensive and dense info...with extreme precision

  • @wattsfield1889
    @wattsfield18892 жыл бұрын

    Such a great video. Gave me great ideas for my next job application

  • @martynaznajdek1113
    @martynaznajdek11132 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for this valuable video, it brings a lot of content and concrete information. It's very helpful for beginner backend developers or developers 'to be' :)

  • @varaprasadreddy6420
    @varaprasadreddy64203 жыл бұрын

    waiting for this for a long time... Thanks

  • @eugeneyap4208
    @eugeneyap42083 жыл бұрын

    Really nice advice, sounds pretty realistic too. I'm currently looking to switch career from testing to development, and hopefully your method of building portfolio can get me to places =)

  • @libanjama4080

    @libanjama4080

    2 жыл бұрын

    Whats wrong with testing? And how has the switch been if you’ve already switched

  • @ayusharyal6346
    @ayusharyal63463 жыл бұрын

    I was currently looking for the same. I'm a fresher working hard to get a job in mern stack and this was very helpful

  • @withincity
    @withincity3 жыл бұрын

    To do all of these, after 9-6 job, you need lots of energy/good health. How do you manage that? What's the impact on social activities?

  • @akashaggarwal3041

    @akashaggarwal3041

    3 жыл бұрын

    😂😂

  • @neociber24

    @neociber24

    2 жыл бұрын

    "social activities"?

  • @JayMaverick

    @JayMaverick

    Жыл бұрын

    Get a job that's not draining you 9-6 holy shit.

  • @joshbarghest7058

    @joshbarghest7058

    Жыл бұрын

    @@JayMaverick these are pretty scarce in some places. South Korea for instance.

  • @vinividipepe

    @vinividipepe

    Жыл бұрын

    What are soical atviticies ?

  • @thekaushikls
    @thekaushikls Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for the effort you have put into this video.

  • @RahulYadav-nk6wp
    @RahulYadav-nk6wp3 жыл бұрын

    Hi, I am glad that you covered doc with arch. Diagrams. I have diagrams, but I never put words to that, well now I do.

  • @szilardfineascovasa6144
    @szilardfineascovasa6144 Жыл бұрын

    Excellent, as usual. Thanks! You made me smile at some point. It is, sometimes, hard to prove that you did "all that work" 😆 - depends how deep of a proof they want, and how good your memory is when it comes to odd details. I'll never count out plain weirdness. Hope no one will be so curious, even with all those nice comments I liked to plaster everywhere in my code, about the intricacies of notarizing something on macOS when I was doing it forced to disregard Apple's "way to do it"(TM) in an app that was using a custom runtime. It was like: "you're on your own, buster; here's some half-baked docs for your kind. Also, speaking of notarizing your weird JRE implementation-based app, here's access to an unoffficial support thread. Oh yeah, with some of our own engineers that are well-meaning but sometimes dumbfounded themselves...because you are a beta tester for a service we enforce. That, btw, goes down randomly and this will block your releases for days." We were integrating some 3rd party web rendering component in the application and rarely have I felt as proud as when one of their guys asked me: "Can I publish on our internal Wiki what you sent me? We've had three engineers toiling at this for two weeks and they still haven't cracked it." But the whole ecosystem in there? Long lost somewhere in the desert part of my mind. When I left the company, I wrote "a book" on the subject, indeed, and had quite a few recorded seminars on the whole release topic.

  • @ismailnurudeen
    @ismailnurudeen3 жыл бұрын

    * Live Projects * System Documents/Design * Blog Articles * Tech Talks (I think you forgot this one 🙂) I think I'm gonna focus on the above to build and improve my portfolio. Really great video btw. 👍🏾 👏🏾

  • @hnasr

    @hnasr

    3 жыл бұрын

    Right! Tech talks thanks!

  • @soumalyakundu2354
    @soumalyakundu23542 жыл бұрын

    Always something new to learn ❤️

  • @shreyasgangurde2185
    @shreyasgangurde21853 жыл бұрын

    the video is not too long if it is continuously giving out knowledge...this video was much needed for me.

  • @frankcasanova2132
    @frankcasanova21323 жыл бұрын

    i think the most valuable thing in this video is the part where he talked about documentation, but all contens of the video have awesome tips i think

  • @hnasr

    @hnasr

    3 жыл бұрын

    thanks Frank!!

  • @ekhatordennisikponwosa3375
    @ekhatordennisikponwosa33756 ай бұрын

    Now i see the importance of UX and UI diagrams, wireframes etc in back end coding. Thank you

  • @elv10s
    @elv10s3 жыл бұрын

    thanks for share this video, you help me understand the better way to building my portfolio

  • @sammyj29
    @sammyj292 жыл бұрын

    Pure talent. Thank you for such insights. I am going to start writing articles now.

  • @syedmehdirazabukhari3235

    @syedmehdirazabukhari3235

    2 жыл бұрын

    lol

  • @geoaxis
    @geoaxis3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for a great summary. What is your view on certifications (for the sake of getting noticed by recruiters)? (on top of your formal education)

  • @ng4logic
    @ng4logic2 жыл бұрын

    Good examples of documents are srs (system requirenments specification) and sds (system design specification)

  • @Miguel-fv9cm
    @Miguel-fv9cm3 жыл бұрын

    You should do a video talking about the scaling problems gab is facing and solving right now, their dev team is really responsive.

  • @iQatif
    @iQatif3 жыл бұрын

    Bro. Hussain, In the lately of '80s, We improved our skills depending on writing drafts along with purchasing cassette tapes, watching VHS or purchasing Books from overseas countries. but the most systematic part was exchanging skills and abilities with friends and experts locally. Unlike these days, Sharing knowledge and demonstrating skills become very easy now. however, and believe me, on this one, the most important part of these skills and talented people are hidden from us. they can not share their abilities and show them to the public, and they have their reasons, either they do not have time or because of terms of the confidentially related to their job in the company they working with. We all aware and deeply know technologies are growing and changing very fast as well as technology companies are racing and competing with each other. You're absolutely right Abu Ali, indeed and that's how things should go. شكرا لك اخي الكريم

  • @lakshayasood2197
    @lakshayasood21973 жыл бұрын

    Right time in my life I got this video

  • @Abstract.x
    @Abstract.x2 жыл бұрын

    Great advice Hussein :) thank you

  • @mehulsatardekar8985
    @mehulsatardekar89853 жыл бұрын

    Hussein could you share some system design resources for freshers or would u make some because your so good at explaining complex things. Love yours videos sir🙏🙂 ..

  • @NormandoHall
    @NormandoHall3 жыл бұрын

    As Argentinian watcher of you channel (and developer of course), the best you have is your non native english pronunciation. It's perfect for non english speakers like me (spanish language). Thanks for your advices!

  • @frankcasanova2132

    @frankcasanova2132

    3 жыл бұрын

    yo creía que era nativo, ojalá yo con ese nivel jajaja

  • @NormandoHall

    @NormandoHall

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@frankcasanova2132 precisamente, por no ser nativo americano se comprende a la perfección. Si fuese nativo británico, también se comprendería perfecto.

  • @frankcasanova2132

    @frankcasanova2132

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@NormandoHall en el mundito del backend hay mucho inglés con acento indú y mi cerebro no procesa bien ese acento jajajaj pero recursos en inglés/indú hay muchiiiiisimo pero bufff... Cuesta cuesta xd

  • @pedrograngeiro3849

    @pedrograngeiro3849

    3 жыл бұрын

    For me too. I am brazilian and i'ts perfect for non english speakers.

  • @MilsonPazienza

    @MilsonPazienza

    3 жыл бұрын

    I also understand better non-native English.

  • @omparikh4426
    @omparikh44263 жыл бұрын

    please talk about screen sharing over web(e.g google meet), thanks for regular backend content!

  • @ayusharora2019
    @ayusharora20193 жыл бұрын

    Big fan, watched most of your videos !! Just followed you on Linkedin. I am a full stack developer, focussing majorly on backend. Want to become like you someday.

  • @hnasr

    @hnasr

    3 жыл бұрын

    ❤️ wish you all the best Ayush

  • @CamaradaArdi
    @CamaradaArdi Жыл бұрын

    Wow this actually motivated me to start a blog!

  • @HusnaRamadan
    @HusnaRamadan3 жыл бұрын

    the fantastic guides...thank you

  • @mtiapps
    @mtiapps2 жыл бұрын

    thanks man you really helped me !!

  • @G4BZZZ_
    @G4BZZZ_2 ай бұрын

    This is very helpfull, just changed my perspective!

  • @idawud
    @idawud3 жыл бұрын

    I think it will nice if you can make a video on the developing a proper System Design Documents

  • @Flankymanga
    @Flankymanga3 жыл бұрын

    C4 model... Hmm interresting. I will go and have look. I never thought that there exists something beside UML to model software architecture. Thanks for sharing!

  • @shubhakardebroy2111
    @shubhakardebroy21113 жыл бұрын

    First comment and just loving your video

  • @savingday
    @savingday7 ай бұрын

    I will remember to include a paper I wrote 9 years ago on my portfolio/resume

  • @cyrusnikkopante6806
    @cyrusnikkopante6806 Жыл бұрын

    thanks for this! i am also working on the gis, webgis field :) , trying to incorporate web maps to the portfolio

  • @demidrek-heyward
    @demidrek-heyward3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Hussein!

  • @MrAbhithepandey
    @MrAbhithepandey3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for this video.

  • @pprathameshmore
    @pprathameshmore2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for your motivation sir 😭

  • @alirmaity1570
    @alirmaity15703 жыл бұрын

    Great content great KZreadr ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @centurion3708
    @centurion37083 жыл бұрын

    Those are really good advices for people with years of experience, but it sounds way to complex to do for someone whos's aspiring to get their first job on the deveolpment world as backend dev, like myself

  • @slan7
    @slan73 жыл бұрын

    Super video! I applauded for CA$2.00 👏

  • @carljustinemosquida9614
    @carljustinemosquida96143 жыл бұрын

    Would love to see more examples or walkthroughs

  • @NastyWicked
    @NastyWicked3 жыл бұрын

    Excellent video as always. 100k subs QnA stream == true?

  • @alond5271
    @alond52713 жыл бұрын

    Great channel!!! Can you make video about cloud ? AWS maybe?

  • @iambasanta
    @iambasanta3 жыл бұрын

    yayayay. Thank you so much .

  • @devhipster
    @devhipster3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Hussein I've been rejected because a lack of demonstration like this even though I ve done some interesting projects. Hussein we need subscribers'project review If you have time to

  • @fronix5060
    @fronix50602 жыл бұрын

    I feel like the simplest way is to build very small projects and put them in a github repo. I'm talking small things that solve a specific problem just to show your skills on how you implement for example authentication or whatever you are really good at.

  • @Loicmartins
    @Loicmartins6 ай бұрын

    Thanks a lot!

  • @lee_johnson
    @lee_johnson3 жыл бұрын

    I worked for (kind of) ESRI before. Interesting technology but I have experienced ill treatment in outsourced locations.

  • @waleedbensumaidea3947
    @waleedbensumaidea39477 ай бұрын

    Thank you Hussain

  • @eyadhisham8094
    @eyadhisham80942 жыл бұрын

    funny enough, i was just thinking about doing all of these.. and voila! here is an expert dude on youtube telling me just to do it. (how does these services read our minds!) great video man, Keep up the good work.

  • @codezpro880
    @codezpro8802 жыл бұрын

    Hi @hussein nasser, can we add the information about the projects which we did with companies during the job? I mean, just abstract level diagrams.

  • @franco-gil
    @franco-gil11 ай бұрын

    Love it.

  • @Implicitdefcncdragneel
    @Implicitdefcncdragneel5 ай бұрын

    Big fan man.

  • @davidpaez_co
    @davidpaez_co3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you!!!

  • @joseverto6818
    @joseverto68182 жыл бұрын

    Solid advise

  • @israalfiki
    @israalfiki3 жыл бұрын

    Hey Hussein, I was looking for a video like that and I actually thought about asking you to make one! So, thank you! What projects would you suggest for a junior developer who's trying to land their first job though? What kind of live projects should I make other than the CRUD, APIs and all that stuff? Thank you.

  • @hnasr

    @hnasr

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes these are good start, you can take a simple CRUD API and spend so much time articulating exactly how it works. Remember its not just about the code.

  • @rajeshkishore7171
    @rajeshkishore71713 жыл бұрын

    Hats off to you.

  • @HamzaKhan-oz2xm
    @HamzaKhan-oz2xm2 жыл бұрын

    Through contributing in the Open Source

  • @ritwizsinha1261
    @ritwizsinha12613 жыл бұрын

    U my greatest mentor

  • @sessionexpert
    @sessionexpert3 жыл бұрын

    can you please share all the books you have in your shelf?

  • @dinoscheidt
    @dinoscheidt2 жыл бұрын

    Write a very simple “Situation -> Complication -> Solution” memo on a integration / scaling / your problem space of interest - challenge. That tells me already a lot as a CTO. Cherry on top if you have it on github with proof of concept runnable as dev container / Docker Compose / Kubernetes set-up. Don’t forget that what backend guys experience as “skill signaling issue” is 1:1 the same for the rest of the world. A business or strategy consultant can also not build an example business and point people to a website. Use these techniques as well and don’t get sucked into the flawed “push vecel” done trap. I want to see problem solving skills… not how to avoid them (99% of businesses are by definition brown field projects). My 2ct.

  • @AHMEDHASSAN-wf9nu
    @AHMEDHASSAN-wf9nu2 жыл бұрын

    I`m realy proud that you are an arabian, so thank u that u give us a great rodmap

  • @JagjitBrawler
    @JagjitBrawler3 жыл бұрын

    “Lotta people use UML, if you’re into kinky things” Literally burst out laughing rofl

  • @JagjitBrawler

    @JagjitBrawler

    3 жыл бұрын

    Serious question: how do you come up with ideas for backend projects?

  • @ambarishkapil8004

    @ambarishkapil8004

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@JagjitBrawler Made me recheck the video title

  • @Andreterragt
    @Andreterragt2 жыл бұрын

    Musashi book on the shelf 👍

  • @salesforcedream
    @salesforcedream2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for ur information but still I have confusion about live project. If we build any project in backend technology like java then how client can understand as this project is not containing any UI

  • @machinelearningid3931
    @machinelearningid39313 жыл бұрын

    Thanks

  • @n_ah5505
    @n_ah55052 жыл бұрын

    How to make design document? Can h please make a video on that..

  • @a_k__
    @a_k__3 жыл бұрын

    can you make a video about how you as a professional backend developer learning new concepts and keep you knowledge up to date? ie what general resource/medium are you using?

  • @snghnishant

    @snghnishant

    3 жыл бұрын

    Company engineering blogs are really well written sources for getting such kind of knowledge. For more niche stuff you can definitely look for a technical documentation or design docs.

  • @kareemshaaban112
    @kareemshaaban112 Жыл бұрын

    Can u give me example about technical decision that i have to add to documents because and didn't understand very well? and Thank You :)

  • @Hearschk
    @Hearschk Жыл бұрын

    That 70's show!!

  • @harshpatel1385
    @harshpatel13853 жыл бұрын

    Hi sir can you tell me elk stack used for ?

  • @mahendranath2504
    @mahendranath25043 жыл бұрын

    Hi then can you please suggest to me if a person is trying to get as backend developer how can we start working on it on his only (example for frontend there are a lot of ideas to start with and learn, like clone's but for backend development, how would one garin experience until he lands in the real-time project) so to get a good understanding on the backend engineering is there any way to start with

  • @AO-ko3cd
    @AO-ko3cd3 ай бұрын

    متشكر جدا ❤

  • @sanilkhurana3991
    @sanilkhurana39913 жыл бұрын

    Hey Hussein, thanks for the great content. The only problem I face though is that I never know that the project I am building/blog posts I write, etc. are good enough. Should I aim for something more complex? What is a good level project for a junior, a mid level or a senior engineer?

  • @hnasr

    @hnasr

    3 жыл бұрын

    I think you need to challenge yourself more, usually to the things that I think was easy turns out to be the things that I don’t understand when I go back with fresh eyes. Would you mind sharing a blog post?

  • @sanilkhurana3991

    @sanilkhurana3991

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@hnasr Thanks for replying! It is actually a KZread video I made or a few. I can share the link if you are interested because I never made the videos listed. Here is one - kzread.info/dash/bejne/e6WmkqqqdLCumZc.html&ab_channel=SanilKhurana.

  • @liorbm5779
    @liorbm577910 ай бұрын

    What is considered a good backend project?

  • @marinehakobyan7005
    @marinehakobyan70053 ай бұрын

    Just the thing for the jun that wants to upgrade to mid and more. Just go and make the code documented, then link it in the resume ))

  • @adelhishem1
    @adelhishem13 жыл бұрын

    Is this meant for people with some experience exclusively? If so, how would a beginner approach the matter? How big is the MVP should be? Is it not an overkill to use uml diagrams and requirements docs for a relatively small demo project? Thanks a lot for sharing the wisdom.

  • @hnasr

    @hnasr

    3 жыл бұрын

    Not necessarily, you can start from scratch and document your journey of learning using the 9 tools/mediums I explain in this video.

  • @muhammaddavatgar4973
    @muhammaddavatgar49733 жыл бұрын

    love you man and your face is so gorgeous :)

  • @khanriza
    @khanriza3 жыл бұрын

    Blog for sure.

  • @dieudonnemukunzi529
    @dieudonnemukunzi5293 жыл бұрын

    Hussein is like the Tai Lopez of backend development... Stinking table tags 🤣💥🚀

  • @The-fv7xi
    @The-fv7xi3 жыл бұрын

    Your Back-end Engineering Videos are Quality based and comprehensive. Nice if you do the same Quality Videos for Front-end.

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