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Andrew Brown 🇨🇦 • Edited

The way I broke into the web-dev industry was contributing two full weeks to an open-source codebase called Teambox and then I became their CTO overnight. I've never held less than a CTO position since.

Open source is the egalitarian's dream for career progression.

I contribute to Dev.to codebase and the AWS Docs when I can.

I have to begrudgingly contribute to a few ruby gems since all the 10x ruby developers sailed out to Valinor, the Undying Lands, across the sea to the west.

I just had a wonderful Zoom call with Ben, Jess and Nick tackling a big old and ugly ticket.

github.com/thepracticaldev/dev.to/...

If you ever want to show you have good team skills, Open Source a strong qualifier.