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Sara Soueidan's is pretty great - https://sarasoueidan.com/ - especially the speaking section. She's amazing generally though, so it's quite a high bar!

I had some good feedback on mine as well - https://tim.fyi - and I'm pretty happy with it (love to hear what other people think too though). After the intro though, it's more about highlighting recent specific projects and talks and articles, rather than acting as a full CV. Sounds like that might be what you're going for?

If I were you, I'd keep it simple. Go for a short simple intro that highlights what you're about, a two or three sentence summary of what you've done and what you're good at, and then keep the body as something that gives more of a feel of what you're about and up to right now. Links to blog articles, things you're tweeting about etc.

You can provide an actual CV for people who want to dig into the details of your list of achievements and research in more detail, but if this is the first place people hear about you and it's your personal site, then a sense of personality and active things going on is more important imo.




Website did nothing for me.


Comment did nothing for me.

Come on, you can do better than this. You're wasting your own time more than anyone else's with these sorts of comments.

To GP: Your website is just okay (on mobile). I recommend getting rid of the carousel since they're generally useless UX-wise and in this case it also repeats content with the feed below it. Not a big fan of the typefaces, but it is "approachable" if that's what you're going for. I'd get rid of the shadows on text and personally I don't think the boxes behind every feed item is totally necessary. The content without the cards behind it looks fine to me!

Also maybe making the medium/github/etc links stand out a bit more (on mobile they're overlaid on your picture). They look a bit decorative but in fact seem quite important for users to notice.

EDIT: Looked at it on desktop: The cards seem to make more sense, but not a fan of the background photo (just a bit dated). I also see now that the carousel content isn't completely duplicated, but I'd still advocate swapping it out for a single highlighted project – your magnum opus – that you dive into more extensively. Just to offset the deluge of information that's in the feeds below. Cool site! Tasteful blues and shadows goin' on.




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