Hallo, Everyone, I’m Aubrey, currently I am in final semester of the Computer Programming & Analysis program at Seneca. I’ve completed two coops so far, and while I learned a lot, especially about worked in real development teams but I still feel like I don’t have any personal or public-facing projects that I can proudly show off. Most of the work I did during my coops was for internal company uses, so nothing that really exists “out there” in the open. That’s why I want to take OSD600 to contribute to a real open source project, something that anyone can see, use, or even build upon. I’m hoping this course will finally give me that opportunity.
I’m interested in backend, cloud, AI agent, etc and I’m still exploring. I’m hoping this course will give me a better sense of what it’s really like to work on a large, collaborative codebase. I want to get more confident reading someone else’s code, understanding their project structure, and contributing something meaningful without breaking everything. I’d also love to improve the git & Github skills such as Fixing conflicts and CI tools.
For my GitHub repo research, I picked [https://github.com/JetBrains/koog] by JetBrains that helps developers build AI agents that are composable, observable, and deployable. It supports multiple platforms (JVM, JavaScript, Wasm, even iOS), and includes features like streaming responses, tool chaining, and tracing—all the cool stuff you’d expect from a modern AI project.
What drew me in was the fact that it’s from JetBrains. I’ve used PyCharm and IntelliJ IDEA before, and I like their IDEs are well-designed. So when I saw their name on the trending page, it instantly caught my eye. I really respect the work they do and was curious to see what this new project is about. But the things is I don’t know Kotlin at all. So I’m not sure if I’ll actually be able to contribute to this project this semester. But I’m still interested in keeping an eye on it and learning from the repo.
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