I'm not sure my advice is relevant, but I'll tell you what I have.

I have a gigantic open-source portfolio. I incorporated it into what Stack Overflow calls a "story"[0]. This is sort of a "super-CV."

I have an almost solid green GH Activity Graph[1]. The value of this is reduced by people that "game" theirs.

I spruced up my GH profile[2], using their "hidden Profile README"[3].

I have had over twenty apps in the iOS App Store, over the years. I'm down to just a few, now[4].

I spent my entire career (over 30 years), shipping product; even my open-source work is done as "ship." I have written a tool that has become a worldwide standard[5] (but is now under the care of a new team -I hardly have anything to do with it anymore).

I write a lot of stuff[6].

Basically, my motto is "Don't just take my word for it; see for yourself. I can prove what I say."

I would have been happy work for half of what people with far less skill than I demand, as I do what I do for the love of the craft, and my retirement is set.

That all means nothing. Recruiters drop me like a live snake, as soon as they figure out that I'm older than 40 (50, actually). I now make sure that my age is known up front, so that prevents a big waste of time. They don't need to give me a binary tree test to weed me out.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/story/chrismarshall (Story Format) https://stackoverflow.com/cv/chrismarshall ("CV" Format)

[1] https://github.com/ChrisMarshallNY#github-stuff

[2] https://github.com/ChrisMarshallNY

[3] https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/setti...

[4] https://littlegreenviper.com/AppDocs/

[5] https://bmlt.app

[6] https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany