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+title: "Meet the Maintainer: Hussaina Begum"
+subtitle: "An interview series with open source maintainers"
+date: 2024-09-08 10:30:05 -0530
+author: Vivek Vishal
+thumbnail: ./hussaina-begum-layer5-maintainer.png
+darkthumbnail: ./hussaina-begum-layer5-maintainer.png
+description: Meet the Maintainer series with open source maintainer, Hussaina Begum
+type: Blog
+category: Open Source
+tags:
+  - Open Source
+featured: false
+published: true
+---
+
+import { BlogWrapper } from "../../Blog.style.js";
+import img from "./hussaina-begum-layer5-maintainer.png";
+import { MeetTheMaintainer } from "../../MeetTheMaintainer.style.js";
+import { Link } from "gatsby";
+import ForkLift from "../../../../assets/images/app/hero/forklift.svg";
+
+<BlogWrapper>
+<MeetTheMaintainer>
+
+<div class="intro">
+  <p>
+    Continuing in our Meet the Maintainer series, we have{" "}
+    <Link to="/community/members/hussaina-begum">Hussaina Begum</Link>. Hussaina
+    is a maintainer of the{" "}
+    <Link to="/cloud-native-management/meshery"> Meshery CTL</Link> project. In
+    this interview, we get to know Hussaina a little better and learn about her
+    journey as an open source project maintainer and with Layer5 community.
+  </p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="interviewer">
+  <span>Vivek:</span>
+  <p>
+    Hussaina, thank you for joining me today. Many people inside and outside of
+    the Layer5 Community have seen the effects of your contributions, but may
+    not know the backstory as to who Hussaina is and how you arrived at your
+    maintainer role. Indulge us. How did you discover the Layer5 community? What
+    made you stay?
+  </p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="interviewee">
+  <span>Hussaina:</span>
+  <p>
+    I wanted to contribute to Open source for a long time and finally made up
+    my mind to get into the world of Open Source during Hacktoberfest 2020.
+    Meshery was one of the projects I contributed to and it had a well defined
+    structure and meetings for everyone - Newcomers call, Developers call,
+    Websites(FrontEnd development) call, CI/CD call and community call, etc.
+    Also, the meshmate program where the existing Meshery maintainers help the
+    newest members to get started. Meshery project aligned with my networking
+    background and my goal towards backend development using golang. Last but
+    not the least, lighthearted jokes from Lee during the development call.
+  </p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="interviewer">
+  <span>Vivek:</span>
+  <p>
+    You’re a Meshery Maintainer and have been for some long time now. What does
+    being a Meshery maintainer mean to you?
+  </p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="interviewee">
+  <span>Hussaina:</span>
+  <p>
+    Lots of learning. Though I started out small in Meshery with a
+    documentation PR, Meshery community had so much knowledge to share. With
+    their support, I could start on mesheryctl UX improvements. I have seen many
+    bright engineers implementing great features in Meshery. I draw inspiration
+    from them and try to pay it forward by helping new members of the
+    community.
+  </p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="interviewer">
+  <span>Vivek:</span>
+  <p>
+    <Link to="/projects">Layer5 projects</Link> has a number of active, open
+    source projects. You’ve been consistently contributing to a few of them.
+    Which one(s) are you currently focusing on?
+    <i>Psst.</i> Also, which one’s your favorite? I won’t tell.
+  </p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="interviewee">
+  <span>Hussaina:</span>
+  <p>
+    I have contributed to mesheryctl, meshkit and meshery.io projects so far,
+    It's hard to pick one.
+  </p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="interviewer">
+  <span>Vivek:</span>
+  <p>What’s the coolest Meshery demo you have done/seen?</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="interviewee">
+  <span>Hussaina:</span>
+  <p>
+    Meshed playground demo is awesome. I also remember the mesheyctl system
+    perf CLI demo I have done on the Meshey office hours from one of the Kubecon
+    events. Kudos to all the contributors of mesheyctl system per command
+    development and refactors.
+  </p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="interviewer">
+  <span>Vivek:</span>
+  <p>
+    What do you anticipate will be Meshery’s biggest announcement this year?
+  </p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="interviewee">
+  <span>Hussaina:</span>
+  <p>Meshey project moving to Incubating status🙂</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="interviewer">
+  <span>Vivek:</span>
+  <p>What is your favorite Meshery CLI command?</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="interviewee">
+  <span>Hussaina:</span>
+  <p>mesheryctl system start</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="interviewer">
+  <span>Vivek:</span>
+  <p>What is your hot tip for working with Meshery that others may not know?</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="interviewee">
+  <span>Hussaina:</span>
+  <p>
+    Use slack effectively and leverage discuss forum, talk to Meshmates and
+    maintainers, they are all ears to the issues you face while starting out.
+  </p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="interviewer">
+  <span>Vivek:</span>
+  <p>
+    What are some personal goals for the next year with respect to the Meshery
+    and the Layer5 community?
+  </p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="interviewee">
+  <span>Hussaina:</span>
+  <p>
+    Work on the long pending system config CLI improvements and contribute to
+    other Meshey projects.
+  </p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="interviewer">
+  <span>Vivek:</span>
+  <p>
+    Interesting. Do expand on that: What do you think Meshery could offer in
+    addition to what it already does?
+  </p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="interviewee">
+  <span>Hussaina:</span>
+  <p>Labs designed in a way that they work with local resources.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="interviewer">
+  <span>Vivek:</span>
+  <p>
+    Your most often used emoji? Your preference: movie or book? Morning person
+    or night owl? What have you worked on in the past six months that you’re
+    particularly proud of?
+  </p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="interviewee">
+  <span>Hussaina:</span>
+  <p>
+    eyes emoji. My preference is a book compared to a movie. I am a Night Owl
+    w.r.t. work, however, I use my early mornings for my fitness goals. I have
+    not been active lately, however removing dependency on CLIs in `mesheryctl
+    system config` would be something I would consider a good milestone item for
+    me.
+  </p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="interviewer">
+  <span>Vivek:</span>
+  <p>
+    The cloud native ecosystem moves quickly. Keeping up with all the
+    developments can be challenging. How do you stay up-to-date?
+  </p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="interviewee">
+  <span>Hussaina:</span>
+  <p>
+    I like listening to kubernetes podcasts and I follow the internal slack
+    channels for upstream activities at VMware. Also, attending the local KCD
+    events helped me understand the latest developments across various k8s
+    projects. Being a program committee member has given me good understanding
+    of developments across a specific technology area, let it be security and
+    identity area or the world of service meshes.
+  </p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="interviewer">
+  <span>Vivek:</span>
+  <p>
+    Do you have any advice for individuals hopeful to become Layer5 contributors
+    or potentially maintainers?
+  </p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="interviewee">
+  <span>Hussaina:</span>
+  <p>
+    Show up and attend the meetings which align with your expertise and areas
+    you would like to learn or contribute to. Make use of the Meshmates and
+    Meshery slack and discuss forums are pretty active and everyone is eager to
+    help.
+  </p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="note">
+  <img src={ForkLift} height="100px" />
+  <p>
+    The Meshery project moves at an impressive pace thanks to maintainers like
+    Hussaina. Be like Hussaina. Join the{" "}
+    <a href="https://slack.layer5.io">Layer5 Slack</a> and say “hi".
+  </p>
+</div>
+
+</MeetTheMaintainer>
+</BlogWrapper>