Hi everyone 👋
First of all, I want to thank you all for your support throughout my journey learning Rust and working on my Rust embedded vector database, OasysDB. Really appreciate the feedback, suggestions, and most importantly contributions that this community give me.
Since about 1 month ago, I was starting to feel the burnout doing just open-source because my savings is running out and stress from life in general. I love doing open-source and supporting people using OasysDB but without a full-time job to support myself, its not maintainable in the long-term.
Also, hearing the story about xz and stuff, I'm glad that people in OasysDB community is very patient and supportive.
So, long story short, someone opened an issue on OasysDB and suggested me to integrate OasysDB with his platform, Indexify, an open-source infrastracture for real-time data extraction and processing for gen AI apps.
We connected via LinkedIn and he noticed that I have my #OpenToWork badge on and asked me about it. I told him that if he's hiring, I'd love to be in his team. And he was!
We chat for the following day and the day after discussing the projects, the motivation behind them, and stuff.
The whole process went by really fast. He made the decision to onboard me the same day we last had a chat, Friday last week. We discuss the detail of the job and compensation over the weekend and just like that, I got my first Rust-oriented job.
I hear somewhere that to get lucky, you need to spread the area where you can receive luck. For me, my open-source project, OasysDB, is one such area.
If you are still trying to find a job, don’t give up and consider different channels other than applying via job boards.
Anyway, If you have any questions, please feel free to ask and if you have similar story, I'd love to hear them too 😁