Your portfolio doesn't have a design problem. It has a pulse problem. You did all the "right" things — the repos, the clean descriptions, every icon from the dev-starter pack lined up like trophies. But still, nobody's calling you back 😔.

So I asked three hiring pros to pull up three real developer portfolios and start the autopsy. Wesley Gorman, former senior director of engineering at Zendesk. Jessica Tai, engineering manager at Airbnb. Bruce Lam, the recruiter behind Boring Resume.

What we get into:

• What killed each of three real developer portfolios our panel tore into — and the one move that made the third the unanimous winner

• The exact Claude prompts for a project description with a real number in it, and an About page that doesn't sound like a LinkedIn headline

• How to go from blank page to a working site in v0, then bolt on an Eraser architecture diagram

• Where to actually host it — and why a Notion page quietly tells a recruiter you didn't try (plus the $11 Porkbun domain that beats yourname.github.io)

Stop performing CPR on a portfolio that never had a story to begin with. Build the new one so it has a pulse before you ever hit publish.