I did.

I used to contribute quite a lot to the Puppet ecosystem. I met a ton of people through my interactions with the community and by being the maintainer of a few things like Puppetboard, pypuppetdb and the apt module. Through my contributions around PuppetDB I ended up working closer with two engineers who eventually asked if I were interested in coming to work with them.

The company was Spotify, and I accepted the offer in fall 2014 and stayed for a good four years.

This has been a massive boost to my career and it's mostly just been dumb luck.