Initial contributor experience

[Austin Bennett]

Had been meaning to get setup to contribute for a bit - so walked through
with Pablo, to try to point out assumptions, lacking docs, etc.

Write-up found-->

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hq-s3L676LkMTftvhv0eCkdwrRnZmCRiLdaQBWLHWWA/edit