What I learned as a college student running a large open-source project

My name is Palash Shah, and I'm the author of Libra: a machine learning library that lets you build and train models in one line of code. My journey in the open source community started as a normal college student -- I worked on my library after classes in my dorm room. Quite quickly though, it began to grow into something much bigger than that, going from 0 to close to 2,000 stars in under a month. All of a sudden it was being used at universities like Carnegie Mellon and MIT in several of their machine learning classes. As someone who previously had no professional presence and/or connections in the technical industry, my experience starting this project was unique compared to the rest of the players in this space.