Open source is your friend. I wonder why more people do not take advantage of it. It's one of the greatest hacks available in our industry. Imagine in other industries like if you wanted to be a doctor, he could be a part of someone's greatest surgeries in the world like that is the power of open Source. Choose a project that you like lurk for some time, learn the styles and idioms of the project and then start contributing and take the feedback that you get seriously and improve upon it.