# Hired Through GitHub: Part 1

DevFeed: [Hired Through GitHub: Part 1](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/hired-through-github-part-1-13491.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://zed.dev/blog/hired-through-github-part-1>)

Author: Joseph Lyons, Katie Geer, Franciska Dethlefsen

Published: 2025-09-16T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Zed Industries - Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/zed-industries-blog.md>)

Topics: [GitHub](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/github.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [Code quality](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code-quality.md>), [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/coding.md>)

Tags: [code-quality](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code-quality.md>), [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/coding.md>), [community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community.md>), [contributed](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/contributed.md>), [contributions](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/contributions.md>), [developers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developers.md>), [discord](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/discord.md>), [github](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/github.md>), [interview](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/interview.md>), [linux](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/linux.md>), [macos](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/macos.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [pycharm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pycharm.md>), [series](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/series.md>), [technical](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/technical.md>), [university](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/university.md>), [vs-code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vs-code.md>)

## AI overview

Zed Industries describes how open source contributors can become employees through sustained, high-quality GitHub contributions, community engagement, and collaboration with the team. The article begins a series profiling contributors who joined Zed's core team.

## Source excerpt

Stories from the open source contributors who became core team members.