Ramiz Rahman is the Director of CodeDay Labs, CodeDay Labs is a program that helps students and early-career developers gain real-world experience by contributing to open-source projects under the guidance of industry mentors. Prior to joining CodeDay Labs, Ramiz served as the Head of Product at the ed-tech company Edudigm, where he played a pivotal role in launching their new startup, STEMPowered. STEMPowered focuses on bringing hands-on learning in Robotics and AI to high school and college students.

In his free time, Ramiz enjoys reading about philosophy and geopolitics, tinkering with electronics, taking photographs, playing ukulele.

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No Internship, No Problem: Using Open Source as Your First Real-World Job

For a lot of students and early-career developers, the hardest part of “breaking into tech” isn’t learning syntax or picking up new tools, it’s answering one paradoxical question: “How do I get experience when every job already expects experience?” Open source already solves this, but most newcomers enter projects feeling overwhelmed, unsure where to contribute, and worried about bothering maintainers. The truth is that open source can function as a student's first real engineering job when they know how to approach it, and when mentors and maintainers create environments where newcomers can succeed.

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