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Why LUMS Graduates Get Hired Faster Than You (The "Packaging" Secret) ft. Farhan Ali Raza | TBT Podcast
Do you need a degree from an elite university to land a job at a Silicon Valley startup, or can open-source code be your global passport? In this episode of the Thought Behind Things podcast, I sit down with Farhan Ali Raza, a software engineer from Bahawalnagar who became a core contributor to Django, built Django Bolt (1,700+ GitHub stars), and now works as an open-source engineer at Reflex (a 2023 YC startup)—all while sitting in South Punjab.
Context: Farhan’s story completely shatters local location and university biases. We dive deep into how he used Google Summer of Code and GitHub to…
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