---
title: "From Zero to Maintainer: My Open Source Journey with Backstage"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/from-zero-to-maintainer-my-open-source-journey-with-backstage-pxaodjear
source_url: https://backstage.io/blog/2025/05/12/from-zero-to-maintainer-my-opensource-journey-with-backstage
type: article
source: "Backstage"
published: 2025-05-22T19:30:05.200Z
updated: 2025-05-22T19:30:26.873Z
tags: ["open-source", "devops", "community", "red-hat"]
reading_time: 7
upvotes: 52
comments: 5
language: en
---

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# From Zero to Maintainer: My Open Source Journey with Backstage

**[Backstage](https://daily.dev/sources/backstage)** · 7 min read · 52 upvotes · 5 comments

## Summary

The author shares their journey from a novice contributor to a maintainer in the Backstage open source project. Starting as a student intern with minimal exposure to the tech stack, they gradually built their skills through hands-on experience and community engagement. They navigated challenges such as understanding Git and contributing meaningful features, eventually taking on more substantial roles and responsibilities within the community.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://backstage.io/blog/2025/05/12/from-zero-to-maintainer-my-opensource-journey-with-backstage>

## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@snazzie** · 1 upvotes

> Company i work for uses backstage. Upper management forced it down on every team and keep parroting to keep it updated. Literally no one in engineering uses it, non engineering are still going to wrong team for issues. Its a tech debt.

**@stanmd** · 0 upvotes

> Great read

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