The no-fuss, professional link-in-bio setup for engineers job hunting in 2025

You wouldn't ship a feature without a README, so why go job hunting without a page that pulls your work together?

The tech job market in 2025 is twitchy. Opportunities come and go faster than you can say "event loop", and with AI-generated resumes on the rise, recruiters are overwhelmed. They skim, and they click fast.

A clean, professional link-in-bio page helps here. It gives recruiters somewhere to land, along with hiring managers, collaborators, curious ex-coworkers and anyone else who Googles you after seeing your Twitter or Mastodon.

And it isn't only for influencers. It's for engineers who want to look polished without losing a weekend to CSS on a personal site.

Here's how to set up a simple bio link you'll be happy to put on your resume.

GitHub is not a homepage (and LinkedIn is not a personality)

GitHub is great. But if it's the only place you send people, you're betting they'll:

• Click into the right repo,
• Read your README,
• Scroll through issues or commits to work out what you actually did.

That's a risky bet.

LinkedIn is similar. You need it, but a recruiter scanning 40 profiles an hour isn't going to piece together your blog, side projects and speaking gigs. If you don't pull it together for them, they'll move on to someone who did.

A good link-in-bio page gives you one place, easy to skim, for the work that doesn't fit neatly on a single platform.

What to include in your link-in-bio (that isn't cringe)

This core setup works for nearly every engineer:

• GitHub. Pin your best work, not just toy projects. Starred repos and orgs count too.
• Resume. A hosted PDF or Google Drive link (set to "anyone with the link", please).
• LinkedIn, for the recruiters who still live there.
• Email. Just put it on there. Spam filters exist, and hiring managers shouldn't have to dig.

Then the optional extras that can make a real difference:

• A personal blog on Medium, dev.to or your own site, especially if you write about system design, debugging nightmares or architecture patterns.
• A portfolio or project showcase: CodeSandbox, StackBlitz, Vercel-hosted projects, Netlify demos.
• Talks or conference slides. Even a small meetup talk can stand out.
• Your stack or toolkit, as a visual list of what you like building with: React, Go, PostgreSQL, whatever.
• Open-source contributions. Even one PR merged into a cool repo is worth showing.

Here are three sample profiles.

Frontend dev:

• GitHub
• Live projects (Vercel/Netlify)
• CodePen/CodeSandbox
• Blog (UI performance, CSS tips)
• Resume
• LinkedIn

Backend engineer:

• GitHub
• Blog (scaling, architecture)
• Resume
• LinkedIn
• Email
• OSS contributions (e.g., FastAPI PRs)

ML engineer:

• GitHub
• HuggingFace or Kaggle profile
• Portfolio (hosted notebooks, visualizations)
• Resume
• LinkedIn

How to make it not look like a creator page

Some link-in-bio pages look like a digital carnival, with neon buttons, dancing emojis and autoplay music (why?).

For a professional look, keep it stripped down:

• Monospaced fonts or a clean sans-serif
• Neutral colors or dark mode
• Consistent icon sizes
• No flashing animations, please

Linky has minimalist themes to choose from. We're engineers too, so we get it.

Want it to look like a README.md file? There's a theme for that. Want it to feel like a modern docs site? That's easy too.

You're aiming for a page that looks intentional, not flashy.

Build it once, in under 10 minutes

This shouldn't turn into a project. You're already debugging weird Docker errors at midnight, and your bio page shouldn't be one more thing to think about.

That's why Linky is built to be:

• Fast to set up (about 10 minutes)
• Customizable without code, or with code if you want
• Easy to update, because you will change stacks or jobs

You can group links by category, embed your GitHub activity and plug in Notion pages. Markdown is supported, analytics are built in, and the free plan isn't stingy.

What a good page says about you

A well-built link-in-bio page quietly tells people that:

• You care about clarity and user experience
• You took the time to highlight your work
• You know how to walk someone through your professional story

It's a small signal, but when hiring managers are skimming 80 portfolios, small signals get noticed.

Once it's up, you can reuse it everywhere. Put it in your Twitter bio, add it to your email signature, or drop it in a pull request comment. It works as an intro wherever you are.

TL;DR setup checklist

For the skimmers (we see you):

• lin.ky/[yourname]
• GitHub
• Resume (hosted link)
• LinkedIn
• Email
• Bonus: Blog / Side projects / Talks / Tools
• Clean, minimal theme
• Mobile-friendly

Bookmark it and you're done.

Even if you ghost the interview, your link won't

Job hunting is exhausting. You forget to follow up, miss a recruiter email, or skip a phone screen you weren't ready for. It happens.

Your bio page stays up and organized the whole time. So even when you're too burnt out to prep for that system design round, your Linky link is still working for you in the background.

And when you land the next role, update it: add the new job, archive the old links, and keep going.