From Hospice to HOSTNAME: AmyJune Hineline's Guide to Hacking the Open Source Career Path (No Code Required)

Everyday Heroes

Look, we've all heard people say "just learn to code" like it's some magical career-fixing spell. But AmyJune Hineline took one look at that advice, said "nah," and STILL became an open source legend. How? By realizing that maybe - just MAYBE - the real superpower isn't writing code, but building the communities that make code matter.

In this episode:

• The ACTUAL reason she left hospice nursing (spoiler: it involves questionable elbow substances)
• How putting "can spell diarrhea" on a resume landed her a job at Red Hat (this is not a joke, this LITERALLY happened)
• Why being a QA engineer is basically being paid to find problems (and why that's actually awesome)
• The radical notion that documentation is just as important as code (gasp!)
• That time we made her play a game about weird inventions and learned WAY too much about a piano that uses cat tails (the 18th century was WILD, y'all)

Featured Projects & Links:

• Find Amy June:
  • @volkswagenchick on social
  • LinkedIn (yes, the diarrhea spelling is still proudly displayed)
• Linux Foundation Certification Programs
• Drupal Mentor Program
• Colorado Drupal Association
• Aaron Winborn Award Winner 2021 (because we forgot this in the intro and she rightfully called us out)

Key Quote: "If a consultancy can't handle me having the word 'diarrhea' on my resume, I don't think I can work for them." - Amy June Hineline, professional bar-raiser and spelling champion

Featured Organizations:

• Linux Foundation
• Drupal Community
• CNCF Deaf and Hard of Hearing Working Group

Hosted by Hayden Baillio and Wendy Hurst Brought to you by HeroDevs - Because someone has to keep your end-of-life software from becoming end-of-world software.

(Next time someone tells you spelling doesn't matter in tech, just remember: THIS WOMAN GOT HIRED AT RED HAT BECAUSE SHE COULD SPELL A WORD ABOUT POOP. Dreams really DO come true, folks.)