AI Portfolio Feedback

ok, so I just now made more updates to my page, let me know ways to improve it further: https://www.danielkliewer.com/

I think the site is moving in the right direction. Compared to the version you showed me earlier, it feels much more like a coherent technical portfolio instead of a personal blog with projects attached. The emphasis on AI systems and engineering is clearer. citeturn0search0turn0search1 If I were reviewing this as a hiring manager at an AI startup, these are the next things I would focus on. ### 1. The homepage still explains before it proves This is still the biggest opportunity. Within the first screen I want to immediately think: > "This person builds serious AI systems." Right now I still have to read. Instead, above the fold should visually communicate that. For example: ``` AI Systems Engineer Local-first AI • Agentic Systems • RAG • Next.js 20+ production AI projects 200+ technical articles Open source research ``` Then immediately underneath... ``` Featured Work [SpecGen] Deterministic code generation with RAG [Orthos] Self-improving coding agents [Sovereign Intelligence Observatory] Research platform [PersonaGen] Quantified AI personalities ``` A visitor should understand your work in about five seconds. --- ### 2. Add screenshots everywhere One thing still missing: Your projects are mostly words. Every project should have - architecture diagram - interface screenshot - GIF - terminal output - graph - visualization People trust visuals. Think GitHub README quality. --- ### 3. Research page should feel like a knowledge base Instead of ``` Latest Posts ``` I'd organize around subjects. Example: ``` Agentic AI (18 articles) RAG (24 articles) Local LLMs (31 articles) Reinforcement Learning Document Driven Development Computational Sovereignty GraphRAG Coding Agents ``` That immediately tells Google and readers > this site has depth. --- ### 4. Every featured article should answer one question Right now some titles are excellent. Others still feel like journal entries. Try making them answer a question. Examples: Instead of > Dynamic Persona MoE try > How I Built a Dynamic Persona Mixture-of-Experts RAG System Instead of > Autonomous Architectures try > Building Autonomous AI Agents with Local LLMs People search questions. --- ### 5. Make the homepage more visual Right now it's still text-heavy. I'd alternate ``` text diagram text GIF text code snippet text project cards ``` Every screen should have something visual. --- ### 6. Show evidence One thing employers love: ``` Built with ✓ Python ✓ FastAPI ✓ Next.js ✓ Ollama ✓ Docker ✓ PostgreSQL ✓ Neo4j ✓ ChromaDB ✓ TypeScript ``` Even better: ``` Recent Technologies ■■■■■ Python ■■■■■ Next.js ■■■■ Ollama ■■■■ FastAPI ■■■ React ■■ Docker ``` Not skill bars. Just a nice technology section. --- ### 7. Better calls to action I would have three buttons throughout the site. ``` Read the Research View GitHub Contact Me ``` Repeat them naturally. Don't make visitors hunt. --- ### 8. Add "How I Think" This could become your most-read page. Something like > Engineering Philosophy Include things like - Why local AI matters - Why deterministic pipelines matter - Why documentation matters - Why sovereignty matters - How you approach system design People hire people whose thinking they understand. --- ### 9. More diagrams This is probably the single biggest improvement. Whenever I see ``` Agent ↓ Planner ↓ Retriever ↓ Memory ↓ Generator ``` my confidence immediately increases. You write about systems. Show systems. --- ### 10. Add a "Start Here" Your site now has enough content that newcomers may not know where to begin. I'd add something like: ``` New Here? Start with these five articles. 1. Building Autonomous AI Agents 2. Computational Sovereignty 3. Dynamic Persona MoE 4. Document Driven Development 5. Sovereign Intelligence Observatory ``` That turns the site into a guided experience rather than a long archive. ## Overall assessment If I were scoring it today: - **Visual design:** 8.5/10 - **Technical credibility:** 9.5/10 - **Project presentation:** 8/10 - **Navigation:** 8.5/10 (much improved) - **SEO structure:** 9/10 - **Hiring potential:** 8.5/10 - **Overall:** **8.8–9.0/10** The remaining gap isn't the quality of your work—it's the presentation. You have enough substantive material that the next step is to make it easier for visitors to grasp your strengths quickly through visuals, stronger information hierarchy, and a clearer narrative. The goal is for someone to land on the homepage and, within 10–15 seconds, understand what you build, why it matters, and where to explore next.