How to Personalize Your GitHub Profile 🌟

Tools and Tips to Reflect your Skills and Make them Shine

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GitHub is the leading platform for code versioning, collaborative development and Open Source projects. Having a GitHub presence, or having your portfolio (or part of it) on GitHub can be a good way to stand out and elevate your profile.

Today I’ll write about how to customize your GitHub profile page. I recently updated mine, and I thought this could be a useful topic.

I wrote this article in a for total beginners’ style, but there are tips and resources that anyone with some experience using GitHub could find interesting.

Before I continue, when you land on a GitHub profile page, you will see content that belongs to 2 different spaces:

• A sidebar on the left: You can edit this clicking on “Edit Profile” (you need to be logged in your account!). It’s intuitive, and the article is not about this. But if you’re using GitHub for your portfolio, or as a social interaction platform, completing this information is important: A picture, your social accounts (if you feel like they’re professional-friendly!) and a short description.
• A main page to the right, which comes from a special GitHub repository. This is what we’re going to talk about today.