Tublian
Open Source Collaborator | Project Mentor·Columbus, Ohio·Dec. 2023 – April 2024
What they do
- Tublian's open-source programme pairs developers with real projects and with each other. I joined as a contributor and ended up mentoring.
The work
- I contributed across several open-source projects and mentored more than twenty newer developers. Mentoring turned out to be the part that taught me most, because explaining a decision to someone who will actually go and implement it is a much harder test of whether you understood it than writing it yourself.
- The build I remember is DevDocGenie, a RAG chatbot for searching documentation, well before retrieval systems were a thing everyone had an opinion about.
- We also reverse-engineered shipped features as exercises, Samsung's live call translation among them. Taking apart something that already works is an underrated way to learn what the hard parts actually were.
What I did
- Contributed to several open-source projects and mentored 20+ newer developers.
- Helped build DevDocGenie, a RAG-based chatbot for searching documentation.
- Reverse-engineered features like Samsung's live call translation as build exercises.