From Simple GitHub Contributions to a Production Wikimedia Merge — My Open Source Journey as Gautam Kumar Maurya (GKM)

Open source always looked exciting to me.

I used to see developers contributing to large organizations, getting their patches reviewed by experienced engineers, discussing architecture decisions, and working on production systems used by millions of people worldwide.

At that time, honestly, I never thought that one day my own contribution would get merged into Wikimedia’s production codebase.

But recently, that happened.