Whether you are a seasoned developer or a first time contributor to open source, you will likely to learn from my journey on how I contributed to OpenTelemetry CNCF project in the last year. Come and join me for an insightful talk and get motivated to start your journey into the OSS space. The audience will be inspired about my one year journey with the open source project OpenTelemetry and how I have built a proof of concept for it and achieved developer status for this project. By the end of this talk, the public will gain insights into the tools to become a better developer and how to build more engagement with the community.