Introduction - Exploring Jenkins for GSoC 2027

Hi everyone! I’m Goyam, a CS undergrad at IIIT Delhi. I’ve been contributing to CNCF projects — shipped a cursor-based pagination fix in PipeCD’s Go codebase (PR #7147), an accessibility fix in Headlamp (Kubernetes SIG UI, PR #1052), and a diagnostics fix in riscv-unified-db (Ruby/GitHub Actions). I work mainly in Go, Java, C/C++, Python, and Kubernetes/Docker, with some ML/AI exposure.

I’m aiming to build real contributions to Jenkins ahead of GSoC 2027 and would love guidance on where to start — particularly interested in plugin development, Kubernetes integration, or tooling-focused issues. Any pointers to good beginner-friendly repos or open issues would be great. Looking forward to getting involved!