A new path to full-time open source (Interview)

After years of working for Google on the Go Team, Filippo Valsorda quit last year to experiment with more sustainable paths for open source maintainers. Good news, it worked! Filippo is now a full-time open source maintainer and he joins Jerod on this episode to tell everyone exactly how he’s making the equivalent to his total compensation package at Google in open source.

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Featuring:

• Filippo Valsorda – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Filippo on Go Time talking fuzzing
• Filippo on Go Time talking security
• I’m now a full-time professional open source maintainer
• age file encryption
• mkcert
• yubikey-agent
• Lemonade Stand

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!