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

[@iamunknownperiod3355]

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]

literally same.

[@watchocho2660]

Frontend is a mess.

[@TheLostBijou]

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]

#youtubealgorithms

[@yazidkrayem7408]

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

[@vladmorevlad2232]

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

[@cBake0]

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.

[@wisdompeters4521]

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.

[@ismailnurudeen]

* 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]

Right! Tech talks thanks!

[@frankcasanova2132]

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]

thanks Frank!!

[@NormandoHall]

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]

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

[@NormandoHall]

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

[@frankcasanova2132]

@@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]

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

[@MilsonPazienza]

I also understand better non-native English.

[@rajdeeppurkayastha3287]

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

[@hnasr]

Glad to hear that ❤️

[@KajalSomaiya]

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

[@jithin_zac]

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

[@ekhatordennisikponwosa3375]

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

[@francksgenlecroyant]

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

[@iQatif]

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

[@ng4logic]

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

[@shreyasgangurde2185]

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

[@withincity]

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]

😂😂

[@neociber24]

"social activities"?

[@JayMaverick]

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

[@joshbarghest7058]

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

[@vinividipepe]

What are soical atviticies ?

[@ayusharora2019]

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]

❤️ wish you all the best Ayush

[@sudo_garrett]

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

[@ashtarpaniagua4732]

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

[@eugeneyap4208]

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]

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

[@centurion3708]

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

[@PranayAnkit]

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

[@ashwanigupta5412]

This is gold. Thanks Hussein!

[@idawud]

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

[@fronix5060]

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.

[@RahulYadav-nk6wp]

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.

[@dinoscheidt]

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.

[@savingday]

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

[@ayusharyal6346]

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

[@sammyj29]

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

[@syedmehdirazabukhari3235]

lol

[@mehulsatardekar8985]

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🙏🙂 ..

[@techtalk668]

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

[@Miguel-fv9cm]

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

[@CamaradaArdi]

Wow this actually motivated me to start a blog!

[@omparikh4426]

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

[@prabhatyadav8189]

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

[@wattsfield1889]

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

[@soumalyakundu2354]

Always something new to learn ❤️

[@lakshayasood2197]

Right time in my life I got this video

[@thekaushikls]

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

[@szilardfineascovasa6144]

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.

[@OthmanSO]

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

[@elv10s]

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

[@Flankymanga]

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!

[@G4BZZZ_]

This is very helpfull, just changed my perspective!

[@martynaznajdek1113]

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' :)

[@devhipster]

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

[@vaibhavgupta5022]

Thanks for another great video Hussein.

[@cyrusnikkopante6806]

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

[@slan7]

Super video! I applauded for CA$2.00 👏

[@geoaxis]

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)

[@Abstract.x]

Great advice Hussein :) thank you

[@sessionexpert]

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

[@themysteryman-e2j]

waiting for this for a long time... Thanks

[@hmod7389]

I am not sure if you have done this but, I was wondering if you can recommend some books that have personally helped you or you just think will helpful to people in general.

[@hnasr]

Here is a video where I talked about that kzbin.info/www/bejne/a2q9ZHeiiNprqrc

[@JagjitBrawler]

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

[@JagjitBrawler]

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

[@ambarishkapil8004]

@@JagjitBrawler Made me recheck the video title

[@ashishambre21]

YES. UMLs are KINKY. YES. 😂

[@tejendrakumar1028]

hahah, cracked me up when he said kinky.

[@RahulYadav-nk6wp]

Yes he did 😂

[@marinehakobyan7005]

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 ))

[@pprathameshmore]

Thanks for your motivation sir 😭

[@HamzaKhan-oz2xm]

Through contributing in the Open Source

[@AHMEDHASSAN-wf9nu]

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

[@lee_johnson]

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

[@a_k__]

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]

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.

[@eyadhisham8094]

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.

[@shubhakardebroy2111]

First comment and just loving your video

[@Hearschk]

That 70's show!!

[@israalfiki]

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]

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.

[@Andreterragt]

Musashi book on the shelf 👍

[@ofirx]

Thanks Hussein ! Would you mind sharing interesting live projects ideas for juniors ?

[@hnasr]

Thats a good idea for a video 👍

[@snghnishant]

@@hnasr please don’t. Don’t spoon feed your viewers just like other tech youtubers. Please ;_;

[@dieudonnemukunzi529]

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

[@mtiapps]

thanks man you really helped me !!

[@Implicitdefcncdragneel]

Big fan man.

[@The-fv7xi]

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

[@demidrek-heyward]

Thanks Hussein!

[@adelhishem1]

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]

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

[@codezpro880]

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.

[@NastyWicked]

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

[@alond5271]

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

[@carljustinemosquida9614]

Would love to see more examples or walkthroughs

[@MrAbhithepandey]

Thanks for this video.

[@HusnaRamadan]

the fantastic guides...thank you

[@ryanwood9288]

15:45 for the impatient

[@waleedbensumaidea3947]

Thank you Hussain

[@alirmaity1570]

Great content great KZbinr ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@sanilkhurana3991]

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]

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]

@@hnasr Thanks for replying! It is actually a KZbin 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 - kzbin.info/www/bejne/f6LVYXunebJ7n5Y&ab_channel=SanilKhurana.

[@aravind_k28]

Can you list a bunch of backend projects which any aspiring backend developer can work on to build up their skills, please.... For frontend, there are so many project list, but for back end there is none.. Please put a list of backend projects, please.....

[@hnasr]

Great idea Aravind!

[@aravind_k28]

@@hnasr For a long time I am looking for this. And another problem is that there is no clear cut road map for back end development. And no one really talks about what a back end developer really does or no one, except some peoples like you, really talks about what really happens in backend. Thanks a lot for that. And please put a bunch of project ideas to work on... And a 1000x thanks and support for what you are doing!

[@sassydesi7913]

@@aravind_k28 Try to do some of these in your language of choice. Might help. Good luck! aosabook.org/en/index.html

[@snghnishant]

@@aravind_k28 bhai thoda research kr sab pda hua hai. Roadmap.sh dekh. Aur ek advice, stop getting yourself bottle feeding because if you’ll even become a good Backend engineer with those projects you won’t be a problem solver because you didn’t learn that skill at first. Better try solving your own problems first by making something and you’ll have a project that at least you can use for yourself. That way you’ll even work harder to make it more useful. Even a generic project idea can be done in a much better way if you can think of a much better system design for it.

[@n_ah5505]

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

[@joseverto6818]

Solid advise

[@franco-gil]

Love it.

[@natureandme9619]

I remember I worked for an IT company n I hadn’t seen evening for like 1 year because my office timing didn’t allow me to see it… but now I realise all this IT is shit … be a entrepreneur

[@kareemshaaban112]

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 :)

[@ritwizsinha1261]

U my greatest mentor

[@rajeshkishore7171]

Hats off to you.

[@PracticeTech-rg7yh]

The only thing I hate from all of this. Is most recruiters will plagiarized your hard works in instances you will show case your api documentation skills, system architecture styles, and back-end codebases. Otherwise if you built them mediocre level, they will have a notion that your level is mediocre, if you built enterprise graded as sample projects they're gonna steal it lol

[@muhammaddavatgar4973]

love you man and your face is so gorgeous :)

[@khanriza]

Blog for sure.

[@salesforcedream]

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

[@liorbm5779]

What is considered a good backend project?

[@iambasanta]

yayayay. Thank you so much .