Portfolio examples
Mobile Portfolio Examples
Mobile reviewers want to install it, or at least watch a screen recording. Offline handling is the differentiator.
What does a mobile portfolio need?
Mobile reviewers want to install it, or at least watch a screen recording. Offline handling is the differentiator.
The underlying structure is the same for every role — one clear claim, two or three verifiable projects, a GitHub profile that supports them, and a CV that links to both. What changes for mobile work is the emphasis, and which projects are worth featuring.
Worked examples
Beginner: One deployed project, documented properly
Second-year student. Three university assignments, no personal projects, nothing deployed. Applying for a first summer internship.
Alex Moreau — front-end developer
Second-year computer science student. I build web applications in TypeScript and React. Looking for a summer 2027 internship.
Projects shown: Module Deadline Tracker, Library Lending System.
The ten-second read. A second-year student who ships things and understands why concurrency matters. Worth a first-round conversation.
Intermediate: Three projects with a consistent back-end story
Final-year student with a part-time support job. Several assignments and one side project. Applying for graduate back-end roles.
Priya Raman — back-end developer
Final-year computer science student. I build APIs and data pipelines in Python and Go. Available from July 2027.
Projects shown: Society Events Platform, Log Analyser, devkit.
The ten-second read. A final-year student with a clear back-end direction and evidence of engineering judgement, not just completed features.
Advanced: One deep project carrying the portfolio
Self-taught, changing career after four years in another field. No degree, no commercial experience. Applying for junior roles at product companies.
Sam Okonkwo — software engineer
Self-taught developer, previously a logistics analyst. I build distributed back-end systems in Go. Open to junior roles.
Projects shown: queuelite, Observability stack.
The ten-second read. Someone who has built real infrastructure and can reason about failure. The lack of a degree stops being the first thing you notice.
Projects that work for mobile roles
Five briefs from the library that produce the kind of evidence mobile reviewers look for:
- Shared House Expense Splitter — Housemates track shared costs in a group chat and a note on the fridge. By the end of term nobody agrees who owes what. (2 weekends)
- Spaced-Repetition Flashcards — Revising by re-reading notes is close to useless, and the good spaced-repetition tools have a steep learning curve for one module's worth of revision. (2 weekends)
- Workout Tracker (Mobile) — Tracking gym sessions in a notes app means no history, no progression and no way to see whether anything is improving. (3–4 weeks of evenings)
Full specifications for these and the rest are on the mobile projects page.
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