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6 myths about contributing to open source

7 February 20222 January 2024by Ela Mościcka | Helping you build and navigate a career in tech1 Comment

Whether you're a Code Newbie who is just beginning your career in tech or experienced professional, you might have heard various myths about contributing to open source. In this article, I'm gonna demystify some of them for you. I hope that after reading it you'll give it a try and deep dive into an amazing [...]

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Code Newbies, here are 4 things you can start doing on GitHub now!

1 February 20212 January 2024by Ela Mościcka | Helping you build and navigate a career in tech7 Comments

Code Newbies, let's be honest: when you're a beginner who has just started learning to code, the idea of jumping on GitHub and doing something there might be…intimidating. I've been there, other Engineers as well, so don't worry! Here are 4 things you can do on GitHub now (think of it as a GitHub for [...]

Hi and thanks for stopping by! My name is Ela Mościcka and I've been in the tech industry since 2011.

I'm bringing unique knowledge, skillset, and expertise by combining two worlds: tech recruitment and software engineering.

As a Software Engineer at the "Microsoft Teams" team, I work on a product that is being used by more than 250 million monthly active users. My primary area of responsibility (and something I'm passionate about) is E2E tests and Accessibility.

Before the career change, I was one of the top Talent Sourcers at the Microsoft EMEA Engineering Recruitment team where I specialized in building new Software Engineering and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams as well as growing existing ones.