On October 2nd, 2020, my first pull request to an open-source project was merged.
Little did I know that it would lead to my promotion to System Architect and that I'd talk about it at the AWS TLV Summit in Israel.

In this talk, I share my journey in the open-source world and how it improved my engineering skills, led to my promotion at work, and introduced new opportunities in public speaking, podcast appearances, and blog writing.
I will discuss soft skills and behaviors that allowed me to advance my career and share tips and tricks for new code contributions while keeping a work-life balance so you can start your journey.