How the LFX Mentorship Program Helped me Start My Career
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Timeline: Jan 2020 new programmer; by March 2021 becomes a full‑time paid open source contributor through the LFX mentorship on the Measuring project. Learns Go, Docker, Kubernetes and cloud networking, starts with four‑line bug fixes then owns subsystems and becomes a maintainer. Earlier personal project grows to 1,000+ GitHub stars. Program provides a stipend, remote async collaboration that improves English and technical writing, and leads to a job offer from the company behind the project and later a mentor role.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:50About me
- 1:54My journey
- 2:55Before LFX
- 5:55My Dilemma
- 9:26LFX Mentorship
- 17:00Lifechanging
- 17:36Skills
- 22:05Mentorship
- 25:28My Experience
- 27:49The Catalyst
- 33:15Warnings
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