Open Source as Your Career Catapult

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Stories about moving from hobby to jobs and companies using Snort, Suricata and Zeek (Bro), building Security Onion into a product with 2 million downloads and starting Corelight are the anchors. Concrete how-to: write Zeek scripts, submit docs or bug reports, learn Git/GitHub, follow a three-step plan—find a gap in a week, do a month-long proof-of-concept, then move to production. Claims: open source accelerates hiring, mentorship widens access, and small contributions quickly lead to visible impact.

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2. 2:21Bernard Brantley
3. 5:23Doug Burks
4. 9:25Gregory Bell
5. 10:10Fatema Walla
6. 14:19Roberto Rodriguez

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