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I did. I used to contribute quite a lot to the Puppet ecosystem. I met a ton of people through my interactions with the community and by being the maintainer o
by daenney 7y ago
I did.
I used to contribute quite a lot to the Puppet ecosystem. I met a ton of people through my interactions with the community and by being the maintainer of a few things like Puppetboard, pypuppetdb and the apt module. Through my contributions around PuppetDB I ended up working closer with two engineers who eventually asked if I were interested in coming to work with them.
The company was Spotify, and I accepted the offer in fall 2014 and stayed for a good four years.
This has been a massive boost to my career and it's mostly just been dumb luck.
- _hzon 7y agoIt's not dumb luck, you put yourself in the picture by contributing to the project. If you were picked up on the streets by the Spotify CEO because he accidentally overheard you talking about developing software, now that would have been dumb luck.
- daenney 7y agoI believe some luck was involved. At the height of the Puppet community and size of PuppetConf our paths could've easily never crossed. But you're also right, I put in a lot of work there and it paid for itself. Ironically none of this was done with the purpose of getting a job, I had one already that I was quite happy with.
- jazoom 7y agoSounds like you made your own luck