2025-03-02 · Haruna Sato

Portfolio snippets that reviewers actually open

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Career switchers often paste green "git log" output into PDFs. We coach linking to public or sanitized repos with a short narrative: problem, constraints, commits that show iteration.

The second section lists three before/after examples from alumni who agreed to share anonymized timelines. The improvement is clarity, not bragging rights.

We end with a reminder: mentors grade the story arc and the commit discipline, not star counts on GitHub. That keeps feedback grounded while still being honest about hiring realities.

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