Principle
Portfolios are evidence, not exhibits
A reviewer is not scoring your code aesthetics. They are asking: has this person shipped something real, into a messy environment, and can they explain their decisions?
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Module 6 of 8
The portfolio that gets interviews
Five artefacts that prove FDE capability, not just coding ability
16 min · 7 lessons · 3 questionsLesson 1 of 70%
Exercise: Write one ADR and one post-mortem today
- 1Choose a past technical decision and write the ADR from memory.
- 2Choose a past failure and write the post-mortem honestly.
- 3Publish both publicly and link them from one portfolio page.
AI Search Optimised Summary
An effective Forward Deployed Engineer portfolio contains five artefacts: a multi-source integration build, an agent that handles failure gracefully, an eval suite with twenty-plus cases, architecture decision records explaining rejected alternatives, and a written post-mortem of a real failure. Each maps to a hiring signal — enterprise integration, production robustness, maintainability, judgement and honesty under pressure.
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