The key to have green grid in your github profile!

2025-11-22

Your github profile has a big impact on you being accepted in a job. From my personal experience, if you want to be hired as a developer in a tech firm you must take care of these three things. You must have real-world projects, knowledge in front-end and back-end and a good github profile.

But why is your github profile important? Well, if you checkout your github profile you will see that there's a calendar-like grid that shows how often you contribute to your projects or other peoples projects. This shows that you practice coding daily and are not lazy which also proves that you are eager to improve and learn. Moreover, your projects also matter as mentioned earlier. The more interesting and unique your projects the better.

Now that we understand the importance of having a green grid as I like to name it, let's talk about how to have a green flag like mine for example. First you must understand that github doesn't care about the amount of code you have contributed to a project it's more about the quantity not the quality however, this doesn't mean that you exploit this and commit meaningless code.

Your first step is to be consistent. Pick a side project that is something that benefits you as a developer, freelancer or a student for example. And everyday add a new feature to that project bit by bit you will finish and complete the project successfully. For example, Rafeeq is a platform that I am still building in my free time which is still not ready I try to work on it on every chance I get and usually, I don't write all the features that should be added in one sitting or one day. Instead, I add the most important fix or feature then, If I feel like it I add the next feature. What matters is that I spent time improving my code.

Next, Quantity doesn't matter if the quality is bad, which brings us to our second point. Work on meaningful projects and try to avoid vibe-coding when you can. This is a very important point because, the point of writing a side project is not to monetize it ASAP instead it is to help you learn and understand development process and technical things through practice which is why I don't always vibe-code my projects. However, this is a topic for another post.

In summary, the key to having a green-grid is to work everyday on a project and pushing your code to github. It doesn't matter how much code you wrote. What matters is that you did spend time to improve as a developer and you wrote meaningful code to progress your project (hopefully). Finally STOP PROCASTINATING and take action.