I believe some of the best code ever written is in the Open Source community and it has become a key source of software that runs our digital world today. As such, it is valuable to understand the ecosystem to benefit our own projects and to enable us to contribute back. My Open Source journey started at a college hackathon and I have contributed since then to projects such as WordPress and Hyperledger – a cross-industry blockchain technology hosted by the Linux Foundation. I currently hold a BSc in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana—Champaign (UIUC) and MEng in Computer Science from Cornell University.