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title: "Open Source Collaborator | Project Mentor at Tublian"
company: "Tublian"
period: "Dec. 2023 – April 2024"
location: "Columbus, Ohio"
url: "https://himanshuat.com/experience/tublian-open-source-collaborator-project-mentor"
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# Open Source Collaborator | Project Mentor — Tublian

*Dec. 2023 – April 2024 · Columbus, Ohio*

## About the company

Tublian's open-source programme pairs developers with real projects and with each other. I joined as a contributor and ended up mentoring.

## 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.

## The longer version

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.

## Stack

TypeScript, React, Node.js, GitHub Actions

Company site: https://tublian.com

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Source: https://himanshuat.com/experience/tublian-open-source-collaborator-project-mentor