Open Source to boost your career
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Software Developer interested in
- Web Development
- Programming Language Infrastructure
Career Trajectory
Intern building data visualisation and infra
Frontend Developer
Product Engineering with Javascript Stack
Full time Open Source
The one thing I didn't do?
Look for a job!
Never prepared for interviews. Didn't do well in the ones I took!
Story of my first job
Mozilla's PDF.JS
Time at Likewyss
(media tech startup)
And now...
full time Open Source!
Take away?
Having your work out in the open helps career prospects!
How to get started?
Reason/OCaml!
Difficulties in getting started
Mentoring
Large codebases