Building in Public: How Sharing Your Work Accelerates Your Tech Career

Most developers do excellent work that nobody outside their company ever sees. They solve hard problems, make good technical decisions, and ship things that matter. But the context lives in a Jira ticket or a Slack thread that nobody else will ever read. That’s a shame, because making your thinking visible beyond your workplace can have a huge impact on your career.

Developers who get consistent inbound interest from interesting companies, good recruiters, and potential collaborators do something different. They create a persistent record of their technical judgment that does career work while they’re doing other things. This isn’t about becoming an influencer or spending all your time writing. It’s about creating a body of work that showcases your skills and thinking.

A well-written post about a tricky concurrency bug you debugged, for example, is direct evidence of your communication skills and technical judgment. It’s way more convincing than just claiming “strong communication skills” on your CV. And the best part is, that post will keep generating profile views, connection requests, and inbound messages long after you’ve moved on to other things. It’s like a long-term investment in your career.

But it’s not just about attracting opportunities. Writing about technical topics also accelerates your own learning. When you’re forced to explain a concept clearly, you quickly surface gaps in your own knowledge. And let’s be real, it’s not always easy. Sometimes you’ll write something and realize you don’t understand it as well as you thought. But that’s okay. That’s how you learn.

So what’s worth sharing? Decision posts, where you walk through a tough technical decision and how you made it, are super valuable. Debugging posts, where you share how you tracked down a tricky bug, are also great. And project updates with technical depth - not just “we shipped X” announcements, but “here’s what was technically interesting about building X” - can be really interesting.

You can share this kind of content on LinkedIn, which has the highest career leverage for most developers. Or you can use GitHub, where your code lives and your thinking is visible. A personal blog or dev.to can also be a good option, although it may take longer to build an audience.

The hardest part is getting started. A lot of developers feel like they don’t have anything worth sharing, or that sharing will expose gaps in their knowledge. But that’s not true. You don’t need to be an expert to share your thoughts. Just start with observation, not opinion. Write about something you noticed while working on a project. And don’t worry if it’s not perfect - just commit to a small cadence, like one post per month, and see how it goes.

Remember, you’re not writing for the most senior engineer in your field. You’re writing for the version of you that existed two years ago - the person who would have found this useful. So don’t be afraid to share your thoughts and experiences. It may just change your career.

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