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Get your free ATS resume score →Python / Data & AI — A portfolio project for junior Python/AI engineers: build a retrieval-augmented-generation (RAG) Q&A app — embeddings, a vector store, and an LLM — with milestones, a starter repo, and the résumé bullets you earn.
Web (React + Node) — The classic portfolio project for junior web developers: a full-stack dashboard with authentication, a REST API, and a Postgres database — React + Node — with milestones, a starter repo, and résumé bullets.
Backend / APIs — A backend portfolio project that shows engineering fundamentals: a FastAPI REST API with validation, a database, automated tests, Docker, and CI — with milestones, a starter repo, and résumé bullets.
Data Analytics / SQL & BI — A data-analyst portfolio project for career-changers: load a real dataset into Postgres, answer business questions with SQL, and build a dashboard — with milestones, a starter repo, and résumé bullets.
Java / Messaging Middleware — A Java backend project that teaches the messaging-middleware skills enterprises hire for: an event-driven order service with Spring Boot and Kafka (swappable for RabbitMQ or IBM MQ) — milestones, starter repo, résumé bullets.
Data Science / ML — A portfolio project for aspiring data scientists: take a real dataset from EDA through feature engineering to a trained, evaluated scikit-learn model — with milestones, a starter repo, and the résumé bullets you earn.
Cloud / DevOps / SRE — A DevOps/SRE portfolio project: containerize a service, provision cloud infrastructure with Terraform, ship it through a CI/CD pipeline, and add observability — with milestones, a starter repo, and résumé bullets.
Data Engineering / ETL — A data-engineering portfolio project: ingest from a real source, transform and clean it, load a warehouse, orchestrate the steps, and add data-quality checks — with milestones, a starter repo, and résumé bullets.
Java / Backend — An enterprise-Java portfolio project: a Spring Boot REST microservice with Spring Data JPA, PostgreSQL, bean validation, JUnit tests, and Docker — with milestones, a starter repo, and the résumé bullets you earn.
Mobile — A mobile portfolio project for juniors and career-changers: a cross-platform React Native (Expo) app that consumes a REST API with navigation, local storage, and error handling — with milestones, a starter repo, and résumé bullets. Native Kotlin/Swift paths noted.
Networking — A network-engineering portfolio project: build a virtual network lab with Containerlab and automate device configuration with Python (Netmiko/NAPALM) and Ansible — with milestones, a starter repo, and résumé bullets.
Security — A defensive security portfolio project for breaking into AppSec: find and remediate OWASP Top 10 issues in a deliberately-vulnerable app and add SAST/DAST/dependency scanning to CI — with milestones, a starter repo, and résumé bullets.