[mooreds]

Definitely brush up on your algorithm skills before you apply with Toptal. I come from a non computer science background and flailed on the tests.

But it did seem like a nice way to get lead gen.

Also would suggest blogging and github projects, especially if you know a niche technology that you want to go deep in.

[wayn3]

Github certainly works. If you go that route, make sure you build things that can be deployed in reasonable time. Include your server configuration etc.

A good github project that is meant for showing off your skills includes instructions on how to get it started.

For example, if you do something javascript, bundle a minimal server that I can execute on my computer. React.js is doing this pretty well, for example.