While searching for my first software engineering role, I wanted experience beyond personal projects. I wanted to understand how real production software is built and maintained.
Open source was the best place to learn, so I started looking for a project where I could make a meaningful contribution.
Finding the Right Opportunity
Like many beginners, I first targeted highly active repositories. One of them was cal.com, where I raised an issue and implemented the fix immediately.
Unfortunately, another contributor's pull request was merged before mine.
