One of my favorite parts of open source is getting to meet and collaborate with a variety of people around the world. As someone with no background in coding, I find it amazing how getting involved in open source enabled me to become a maintainer of one of the largest projects in the cloud native ecosystem. My journey is one of the reasons I love being a mentor through LFX, being able to give back and helping other people get into open source.
This past cycle I got to work with Oluchi Nwenyi to make Cilium’s value clearer to end users. Together, we built new outcome focused pages for the Cilium website including Zero Trust Networking, Network Automation, Cost and Carbon Savings, Multi-Cloud Connectivity, Tool Consolidation and help connect features to the problems that end users are actually trying to solve. Demonstrating this value is something open source projects often struggle to do. For me, they highlight not just the opportunity of the project, but also the opportunity of open source itself. I'm away bikepacking this week at Sneak Peaks (follow along here) so let’s 🐝 -gin.
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9th September 2025
One of my favorite parts of open source is getting to meet and collaborate with a variety of people around the world. As someone with no background in coding, I find it amazing how getting involved in open source enabled me to become a maintainer of one of the largest projects in the cloud native ecosystem. My journey is one of the reasons I love being a mentor through LFX, being able to give back and helping other people get into open source.
This past cycle I got to work with Oluchi Nwenyi to make Cilium’s value clearer to end users. Together, we built new outcome focused pages for the Cilium website including Zero Trust Networking, Network Automation, Cost and Carbon Savings, Multi-Cloud Connectivity, Tool Consolidation and help connect features to the problems that end users are actually trying to solve. Demonstrating this value is something open source projects often struggle to do. For me, they highlight not just the opportunity of the project, but also the opportunity of open source itself. I'm away bikepacking this week at Sneak Peaks (follow along here) so let’s 🐝 -gin.
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