An ordinary Monday morning, no stage and no audience, I found out I鈥檇 reached 10th place among the contributors to quarkus-langchain4j in the world. The story of how I got there in 5 months, and what changed along the way.
I almost didn鈥檛 go. The panel topic changed, my speaking partner couldn鈥檛 make it, and I hadn鈥檛 budgeted for the trip. Hours after arriving, the founder of the largest tech conference in Latin America called me onto the main stage in front of 200+ people. This is the interview where I explain how.
How a mentorship session with Luiz Real made me plan to become a Quarkus committer in 12 months.