Your best bets are to network, and to do Open Source contributions. Start hanging out in the chat channel the devs you aspire to be like hang out in, listen fi

Your best bets are to network, and to do Open Source contributions. Start hanging out in the chat channel the devs you aspire to be like hang out in, listen first, see how they respond and how they ask questions. Read through all the channel guides to posting. And then start asking questions. Once you feel comfortable doing so, start answering questions. Always give thought out, in depth answers. Also, find Open Source projects which interest you and are of a decent size (subjective measure, but you want it large enough so you'll get exposure but not so large there are tons of new people already). Then do some of the work no one wants to do, but that they need done - testing, documentation, wiki gardening. This has two purposes - to teach you about the project in a good way, and to ingratiate yourself to the project committers. You want success, punch your ticket first. Once you've done that a bit, pick an issue that's tagged as a starter or mentored, depending on your project, and discuss how you'd approach it with the committers on Slack or Zulip or their medium of choice. Then execute, and finish it. Do those two things well and you'll have no problem finding a job, assuming there's no culture fit issues when you do a face to face.