I've been using & contributing to open source for a long time. I had the good fortune to end up on the radar of the project lead for Adafruit's CircuitPython, a

I've been using & contributing to open source for a long time. I had the good fortune to end up on the radar of the project lead for Adafruit's CircuitPython, and when he found out I was looking for something different, it was also the right time for them to bring someone new on board. Their embedded & creative teams were already all set up for someone who wanted to make a part time remote commitment. So it feels like there was a big element of luck, but also I feel that having a history of open source work visible on github, as well as creating personal connections in the open source world, helped it happen for me. There aren't a whole lot of Adafruits out there, where you're shipping new hardware products weekly, most of them with open source drivers.