I have to say, this is crazy! At first, I was thinking, how in the world am I going to create a page like that?! referring to FreeCodeCamp’s example page for a portfolio.
I’m proud to say that I think I created a better one. While the formatting of where my “portfolio projects” are (which are just placeholder images for now) is a little off, I think it will do me well over the few months as I build an actual portfolio. 
Also, I just checked out the code used for the example project by FCC. That’s a lot of code! I think mine might be slightly more minimal on the code lines.
Let me know what you think!
http://codepen.io/SlouchingToast/full/VjryZk/
It probably looks fine on Desktop but on mobile the layout is pretty messed up and there’s a bunch of empty space at the bottom.
I’m not sure if you want it to be responsive, and it’s certainly not a requirement, but since you plan on coming back to this project eventually I would recommend looking into making it compatible for mobile at that time.
EDIT: on desktop it looks great, so no worries there. It’s clean and very minimal. I like the font and light colors too.
Good job.
The only thing I may add is that second block of text is pushed all the way to the right and looks like it is running off the page. I would add a bit of a right margin to it.