A new generation of Indian engineers are landing on the OSS leaderboards — and getting hired into ₹1Cr+ remote roles.

For years Indian OSS contribution lagged the rest of the developer world. That has flipped in the last 18 months — Indian maintainers now feature heavily in CNCF, Apache, and the LLM tooling space. A new generation of engineers grew up writing in public, and the pull-request graph proves it. The career payoff is real: a strong OSS portfolio is now the highest-leverage signal for landing remote roles at Vercel, Supabase, and Replicate paying ₹1Cr+ to India-based engineers. The companies are hiring on commit history, not LinkedIn pedigree.