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I've gotten hired at my last 3 jobs primarily due to open source contributions I've done in my free time for fun. Instead of focusing on doing the code for mone

by SEJeff 10y ago

I've gotten hired at my last 3 jobs primarily due to open source contributions I've done in my free time for fun. Instead of focusing on doing the code for money, focus on doing it for the challenge, the fun, and most importantly the networking.

tedmiston 10y ago
Were the jobs continuing to work on the open source projects, or your open source experience was just a factor for why you got the jobs?
- SEJeff 10y ago
  A bit of both :) I was hired based on knowledge gained from dealing with the projects, implementing features in said projects, or literally just deploying the software in large challenging environments. And this was for stuff I contributed to in my free time for fun! OSS <3
  - tedmiston 10y ago
    This is awesome! I actually just started working on my first project with Mesos + Marathon this week.
    - SEJeff 10y ago
      Great stuff as well (but due to $reasons, I'm switching to kubernetes away from Mesos/Marathon)! https://github.com/mesosphere/marathon/issues/created_by/SEJeff https://github.com/mesosphere/marathon/issues/created_by/SEJ... :)
swordbeta 10y ago
Which projects did you contribute to?
- SEJeff 10y ago
  The configuration management tool Saltstack: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commits?author=SEJeff https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commits?author=SEJeff And an infrastructure metrics tool named Graphite (maybe you've heard of it?): https://github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web/commits?author=SEJeff https://github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web/commits?aut... https://github.com/graphite-project/whisper/commits?author=SEJeff https://github.com/graphite-project/whisper/commits?author=S... https://github.com/graphite-project/carbon/commits?author=SEJeff https://github.com/graphite-project/carbon/commits?author=SE... Along with being a former volunteer Sysadmin for gnome.org (yes I used to have root on gnome.org for the Linux nerds out there) and knowing a lot of open source maintainers by nature of meeting them at tech conferences.

by SEJeff 10y ago

tedmiston 10y ago

Were the jobs continuing to work on the open source projects, or your open source experience was just a factor for why you got the jobs?

SEJeff 10y ago
A bit of both :) I was hired based on knowledge gained from dealing with the projects, implementing features in said projects, or literally just deploying the software in large challenging environments. And this was for stuff I contributed to in my free time for fun! OSS <3
- tedmiston 10y ago
  This is awesome! I actually just started working on my first project with Mesos + Marathon this week.
  - SEJeff 10y ago
    Great stuff as well (but due to $reasons, I'm switching to kubernetes away from Mesos/Marathon)! https://github.com/mesosphere/marathon/issues/created_by/SEJeff https://github.com/mesosphere/marathon/issues/created_by/SEJ... :)

swordbeta 10y ago

Which projects did you contribute to?

SEJeff 10y ago
The configuration management tool Saltstack: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commits?author=SEJeff https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commits?author=SEJeff And an infrastructure metrics tool named Graphite (maybe you've heard of it?): https://github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web/commits?author=SEJeff https://github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web/commits?aut... https://github.com/graphite-project/whisper/commits?author=SEJeff https://github.com/graphite-project/whisper/commits?author=S... https://github.com/graphite-project/carbon/commits?author=SEJeff https://github.com/graphite-project/carbon/commits?author=SE... Along with being a former volunteer Sysadmin for gnome.org (yes I used to have root on gnome.org for the Linux nerds out there) and knowing a lot of open source maintainers by nature of meeting them at tech conferences.