Why I Started Contributing to Open Source (and What Happened in the First Few Months)

A few months ago, I made a decision. I wanted to start contributing to open source. I work as a Java backend developer at Wipro, building REST APIs with Spring Boot. I like my work, but there is one problem with it: the code is private. Nobody outside my team can see what I build. I wanted a place where I could write real code, get it reviewed by strangers, and prove to myself that I could work on a codebase I did not write. So I picked a few Java projects and started. It was not eas