It worked out pretty well for me. # Starting OCaml Batteries Included. (that and my academic research) got me my job at MLstate, no interview. # Contributing

It worked out pretty well for me. # Starting OCaml Batteries Included. (that and my academic research) got me my job at MLstate, no interview. # Contributing to Firefox Got me in touch with Firefox devs. One of them suggested I applied to Mozilla. I worked 9 years at Mozilla before moving on. # Contributing to Rust Contributing to the Rust compiler and stdlib got me in the pipeline for a few other jobs. I declined most of them (not a bit fan of cryptocurrencies and how they're used). Also, generally, I find that coding in Rust is good for clarity of mind and purpose. In other words, having solved a problem in Rust helps me write code that both solves the same problem in other languages and has clear, explainable, invariants. YMMV # OpenBerg A long time ago, I started one of the first e-book software readers, called OpenBerg. Jim Gettys [1] got in touch with me by IRC to offer me a job working on it full-time for one year. I already had a job, so I declined. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Gettys https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Gettys