Abdul Samad SiddiquiSenior AI Engineer · Karachi

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Career

Open source, Google Summer of Code, and how I got from a first pull request to a job.

  1. A hand-drawn map with three dashed routes converging on a terminal window icon marked GSoC and open source.

    The third way I found into Google Summer of Code

    The usual advice for getting into GSoC is "have a strong profile" or "contribute for months first." I had neither, here's the third route that worked for me.

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  2. Abdul Samad seated in graduation robes with his cap covering his face, set against a muted paper collage of code marks and node diagrams.

    Four years of showing up

    My four years at NED: starting out barely able to use a computer, a first pull request to Bootstrap, a rejection, then GSoC and my first AI jobs.

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