Yes. I worked at AWS Professional Services. I was also on a skunkworks unofficial team that supported an added features to a popular in its niche open source

Yes. I worked at AWS Professional Services. I was also on a skunkworks unofficial team that supported an added features to a popular in its niche open source AWS project. We would add features to it based on customer paid projects we were doing, or just to scratch an itch. When I was Amazoned, there were a couple of other consulting companies who had as a “nice to have” experience implementing and modifying the project. I had basically insta offers once I told them that I was the third highest contributor on the project and could point to features that they used that I implemented. I also had a few other personal open source projects in the niche that I had released to the official AWS open source GitHub organization that gained a little traction. But solved real world problems. I would not spend anytime doing open source work off hours. I got paid for my open source contributions. In today’s environment, no one is going to take the time to look at your GitHub profile. The only reason mine gained any traction was because I targeted a niche where I know companies were using the project and I was a major contributor