How to Build Your Tech Career by Contributing to Open Source Software

Google Meet : https://meet.google.com/okh-cgvp-ywx

Open Source has come a long way since it's very early days. Today open source is part of every single software development project. It's part of our culture, our industry, and ecosystem. Open Source is a great way to volunteer your time and talent to give back to the world and help other people solve their problems without any constraints. It provides people freedom.

Thanks to platforms like GitHub, Open Source has also evolved into the best way to learn and develop your practical understanding of various technologies, by exploring the source code, issues, discussions, and contributing to the projects directly. It's also a great way to show to your future employers your overall skill & ability as a software developer. This makes your log of open source contributions a really great and more useful replacement for your portfolio or resume.

In this online talk, Goutham from Grafana will share his story of contributing to Open Source Software while he was still in college at IIT-H, and how that prepared him and set him up to build his full time well paying career in tech today.

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