--- title: The Perfectly Unperfect Mentorship | daily.dev description: A narrative account of a 12-week LFX mentorship program at OpenBao, funded by Adfinis, in which mentee Fatima Patel worked with mentors Andrii Fedorchuk and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-perfectly-unperfect-mentorship-6ub1zmbcx twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Perfectly Unperfect Mentorship | daily.dev og:description: A narrative account of a 12-week LFX mentorship program at OpenBao, funded by Adfinis, in which mentee Fatima Patel worked with mentors Andrii Fedorchuk and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-perfectly-unperfect-mentorship-6ub1zmbcx og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/6UB1Zmbcx.png og:image:alt: The Perfectly Unperfect Mentorship og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Perfectly Unperfect Mentorship **[OpenBao](https://daily.dev/sources/openbao)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A narrative account of a 12-week LFX mentorship program at OpenBao, funded by Adfinis, in which mentee Fatima Patel worked with mentors Andrii Fedorchuk and Philipp Stehle to transform passive standby nodes into active cluster participants capable of handling read requests. The program adapted its meeting cadence from daily check-ins to three sessions per week and resulted in Fatima implementing post-unsealing logic and read-capable standby nodes, improving OpenBao's horizontal scalability. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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