Tilda Udufo

Tilda Udufo

Tilda Udufo is a software engineer, developer advocate, and open source community organizer. She works with global mentorship and contribution programs, supporting hundreds of contributors and maintainers across multiple open source projects. Through her work, she focuses on making technical systems more accessible, sustainable, and human-centered.

She has reviewed and mentored thousands of contributions, helped design onboarding and feedback processes, and regularly teaches coding concepts to beginners. Tilda is especially interested in how understanding “how things work” behind the scenes leads to better learning, better debugging, and healthier communities.

When she’s not working on open source infrastructure, she enjoys exploring the intersection of code, design, and education.

Sessions

People & Community
Society, Ethics & Sustainabilty

Mentoring In Open Source in the Age of AI

Talk
Open source mentorship changed overnight with AI tools. Contributors submitted polished code they couldn’t explain, making learning harder to assess. This talk shares what we learned mentoring Outreachy contributors—what failed, what worked, and what we’re still figuring out.