Hiring managers/recruiters may filter those out, but I think if you're talking to an engineer, they can kind of discern whether those open-source contributions

Hiring managers/recruiters may filter those out, but I think if you're talking to an engineer, they can kind of discern whether those open-source contributions are meaningfully equivalent to yoe. I was working as a software engineer up until I started the company, so it's 100% meaningful signal to me!