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Neha Burnwal’s career in open source with Eclipse PDE

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From user to committer By Eclipse Foundation staff In the Eclipse Foundation July Community Newsletter, we featured Neha, Software Engineer at IBM and Eclipse Foundation committer for Eclipse PDE. In the interview, she shares how she progressed from using Eclipse Foundation projects to contributing to them, what she has learned from the community, and how […]

Passion and commitment: Theresa Seyram Agbenyegah’s open source journey

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by Eclipse Foundation Staff “I see open source as a career” For the past seven years, Theresa Seyram Agbenyegah has been growing alongside Ghana’s open source community as a developer, organiser, volunteer, mentor, and advocate. What began in 2018 with a simple invitation to a Django Girls coding workshop has grown into both a passion […]

Joyce Dzifa Lokko: Creating opportunities in Ghana’s growing tech ecosystem

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by Eclipse Foundation Staff “We’re not just developers. We’re 360-degree engineers.” For more than a decade, Joyce Dzifa Lokko has been navigating Ghana’s evolving technology landscape as an engineer, community leader, mentor, and advocate for greater representation in technology. Her beginnings in technology were anything but easy. From struggling to understand her first programming lessons […]

How Sayantika turned wanderlust into open source innovation

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By Eclipse Foundation Team Software development without borders On some days, Sayantika Banik is reviewing pull requests and designing AI-powered data systems. On others, she is diving beneath the ocean surface somewhere off a remote island, disconnected from the internet entirely. Her company meetings happen across continents. Her collaborators are scattered across time zones. And […]

Code from Cameroon: A founder’s road to open source

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By Eclipse Foundation Team Fon Emmanuel Noel Nfebe’s story In the growing constellation of Global South contributors shaping today’s open source ecosystem, Fon Emmanuel Noel Nfebe stands out as a hands-on builder, a humble mentor, and a quietly persistent innovator. His journey – from his childhood in Cameroon to contributing to globally used platforms like […]

What open source has taught me about community, resilience, and purpose

Ruth Ikegah’s story In this guest post, Ruth Ikegah, open source pioneer and community builder in Africa, shares her journey – from her upbringing in a rural Nigerian household to global tech conference stages. Drawing on her experience building sustainable open source communities, she shares key lessons on leveraging open source as a career launchpad, […]

From classrooms in China to code in Ottawa

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Sophia Guo’s path across continents Sophia has contributed to open source since 2018. She currently works for IBM and is involved in Eclipse AQAvit™, where she serves as project lead. From teaching software-related subjects at a university in China to building Java technologies in Ottawa, she has steadily grown into a key contributor in the […]

From Karachi to Düsseldorf: How open source shaped Saad Bin Rafiq’s journey

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By Eclipse Foundation Team “If you want people who go the extra mile, you will find them in Pakistan” When Saad Bin Rafiq first encountered JavaScript in 2008, he didn’t yet know the word open source. What he did know was curiosity, and the feeling that a few lines of code could change everything. Growing […]

Haishi Bai’s path into automotive open source

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By Eclipse Foundation Team  “China’s education system is excellent at developing engineers” We caught up with Haishi Bai, Principal Architect at Microsoft, whose career has been shaped less by a traditional path in automotive and more by a lifelong commitment to learning and open source innovation. Known for his contributions to Eclipse SDV projects like […]

Caribbean contributors: Brayan Muñoz, Java professional and young professor

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By Eclipse Foundation Team  How a Gen Z developer is shaping the Dominican Republic’s open source community From zero experience to global impact: Some developers grow up tinkering with computers. Others write their first line of code before they even know what a compiler is. But for Brayan Muñoz, the journey began in a completely […]