Intersecting Applied Cryptography and Compilers
Well, your boy was able to bag an internship in Nethermind ;) Well they have explicitely mentioned - If you don’t get picked the first time around don’t get discouraged! We are incredibly lucky to get extremely skilled and talented people applying and it often is a difficult choice to make. Just continue learning and developing your skills and try again in a few months. so now I can claim that I must be extremely talented (or lucky) to rock the interviews and get accepted in the first go.
It was the first time I was working in an actual big corporate remote-first actual damn company (not a startup) environment with a real ramp up period to absorb the knowledge for the interns and a proper documentation! Seriously, in all my previous internships, I was always left with humangous chunks of code to read and questions to ask from already busy maintainers and founders (throwing me into sea with sharks when I don't even know how to swim), bloody hell high expectations, and punched in a lot of good documentation as I wrapped them up so that other interns after me don't suffer the same fate! But this time, luck was on my side :) Well that's what you call an company experience!
I got deeply exposed to the cool Starknet Protocol and Cairo. And as I am curious and have a bit of free time today, I am writing this up!
Well, saying that I got exposed to Starknet ecosystem due to Nethermind is actually wrong, I already had some OSS contributions in Alexandria as well as Shinigami and Raito. I was also contributing to Reth and Revm at the side! Also had experience working with Protocols due to my time in Pragma, so I was expecting the internship to be a breeze :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zc804NZ0Hs https://blog.lambdaclass.com/cairo-and-mlir/ https://www.zksecurity.xyz/blog/posts/stark-evm-adapter/