From unemployed to Technology Evangelist in the Open Source world
summary
Starts with an Outreachy internship on Apache Airflow (Outreachy internship) and a first merged pull request to the Kubernetes glossary, progresses through dozens of Python contributions to Airflow’s breeze tooling, community docs work for Kubernetes and Docker, a Docker Captain nomination (first woman in South America), use of Linux Foundation scholarships and CNCF events, and a job landed at Percona after a two‑year gap following 150 job applications in one month.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:47What is open source
- 2:15Personal open source journey
- 3:46First contributions
- 4:50Unemployment and pandemic
- 5:56Internships and experience
- 6:59Recognition and content
- 8:01Job search strategies
- 9:49Open source opportunities
- 11:34Giving back and closing
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