Outreachy Alums, May 2026 to August 2026

Outreachy May 2026 to August 2026 Interns

14 interns were selected for this cohort.

Bioconductor

Firdaws Lamidi

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Firdaws

Bioconductor mentor(s): Svetlana Ugarcina Perovic and Tosin Adeshile and Dorcas Omonigbehin
Project: Microbiome Study Curation
Project skills: Literature review skills, Microbiome knowledge, Study design

Peace Daniel

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Nigeria
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Fiddyhamma

Bioconductor mentor(s): Anne-Marie Sharp and Chloe Mirzayi and Victoria Poromon
Project: Microbiome Study Curation
Project skills: Literature review skills, Microbiome knowledge, Study design

Fedora

Francois Gonothi Toure

Pronouns: he/him/his
Location: Montreal, QC, Canada
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Matrix @gtfrans2re:matrix.org

Fedora mentor(s): Dominik Kawka and Carol Chen
Project: Develop a SLM/LLM using Ramalama RAG based off Fedora RPM Packaging Guidelines
Project skills: Data Analysis, Deep Learning, Git, Python

Aman

Location: New Delhi, India

Fedora mentor(s): Tomáš Hrčka and Antony Nyagah and Samyak Jain
Project: Enhancing the Fedora Release Schedule Planner API
Project skills: CICD, Git, Openshift, Python, REST APIs

Daniel Mungai Chege

Pronouns: he/him/his
Location: Kenya, Nairobi City, Nairobi

Fedora mentor(s): Akashdeep Dhar and Aurélien Bompard and Shounak Dey
Project: Revamp Fedora Badges project with modern fullstack architecture and dedicated MCP support
Project skills: Git, NodeJS, Python

Firefox

Seed

Pronouns: he/him/his
Location: Lagos, Nigeria

Firefox mentor(s): Nikki Sharpley and Kelly Cochrane
Project: Add an Open Tabs Panel to the Sidebar in Firefox Desktop
Project skills: CSS, HTML, Modern JavaScript including promises, Version control tool: Git

OpenStack

Esther Domfeh

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Sunyani, Ghana

OpenStack mentor(s): Himanshu Roy and Riccardo Pittau
Project: Extend Ironic node deployment history api
Project skills: Git version control system, Python programming

Silvia Wachira

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Nairobi

OpenStack mentor(s): Carlos da Silva and Goutham Pacha Ravi
Project: Integrate manila client plugin commands into OpenStack Client
Project skills: Git, Linux, Python programming

Servo

Niya Gupta

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
IRC/Chat/Forum username: niyabits

Servo mentor(s): mukilan and eri
Project: Implement `AudioWorklet` in Servo.
Project skills: Python, Rust

The Rust Project

Ajay Singh

Pronouns: he/him/his
Location: ML-1/36 Anand Nagar Colony , Kandwa , Chitaipur , Varanasi , India

The Rust Project mentor(s): teor and Taylor Cramer and Joel Marcey and Ethan Smith
Project: Calling overloaded C++ functions from Rust
Project skills: Building Code from Multiple Programming Languages, C++ Programming, Rust Programming

Nathan_Akin

Pronouns: he/him/his
Location: Federal Housing, Lugbe, Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Nigeria
IRC/Chat/Forum username: nathan_akin

The Rust Project mentor(s): Jack Huey
Project: Code coverage of the Rust compiler at scale
Project skills: LLVM code coverage, Rust

Tunde-Ajayi Olamiposi

Pronouns: he/him/his
Location: FCT Abuja, Nigeria

The Rust Project mentor(s): Niko Matsakis
Project: Fuzzing the a-mir-formality type system implementation
Project skills: Fuzzing, Introductory type system requirements, Rust familiarity

oghenerukevwe Sandra Idjighere

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Nigeria
IRC/Chat/Forum username: oghenerukevwe Sandra

The Rust Project mentor(s): Marco Ieni and Ubiratan Soares
Project: Improve the security of GitHub Actions of the Rust Project
Project skills: GitHub Actions, Rust, Web development

Wikimedia Foundation

Ana Maria Ruiz

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Tarija/Bolivia

Wikimedia Foundation mentor(s): Artur Corrêa Souza (WMB) and Éder Porto
Project: Addressing the lusophone technological wishlist proposals
Project skills: Django, JavaScript, Python, Wikitext

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