In my experience, most people involved in hiring are looking for negative signals, not positive ones. One "red flag" outweighs ten "green flags". GitHub allows

In my experience, most people involved in hiring are looking for negative signals, not positive ones. One "red flag" outweighs ten "green flags". GitHub allows you to collect green flags, but does not reveal your red flags (only the most anal retentive would red flag you for your personal pet projects' poor code quality). An interviewer's bad feeling in their stomach is to them more important than GitHub.