Hi folks,
I would like to introduce myself as a contributor to the Pekko project. A bit of background: I’m a software engineer working for Microsoft, and I have been working in the industry for the past 9 years. Sometimes I also write about software engineering on https://samuele.dev. Recently, I'm getting more interest in Security engineering topics, such as open-source and supply chain security vulnerabilities. I’m passionate about open source. Most of my contributions are on projects hosted on GitHub (Profile: samueleresca). Those include redis/redisdoc, aws/sagemaker-tensorflow-serving-container, etcd-io/etcd, keda, dotnet. Below few reasons that bring me to contribute to the project: - I'm currently working on a project running on Akka that will be switched over to Pekko. - Pekko is an Apache project. I have never contributed to a project under a community like Apache, and I would like to learn and explore how a well-founded community works. - Pekko is an incubated project. As a new project, I would like to learn how to grow a new open-source project. - Actor model interests me. I previously worked on a project based on a virtual actor model system https://github.com/dotnet/orleans. - There are some Akka-specific concepts that I find super interesting, one of them: https://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/typed/failure-detector.html. (I wrote a post about that in the past). In terms of work, I would like to start with: - https://github.com/apache/incubator-pekko/issues/246 | Reason: Marked as high-priority. - https://github.com/apache/incubator-pekko-platform-guide/issues/18 | Reason: It would be a great way to explore in depth the platform guide and helpful for people landing on Pekko. Any feedback is appreciated. Thanks, Samuele
