It freaked me out because I manually disabled all the user-configured Keybinds in Discord in an attempt to avoid this very situation. I just accidentally started a Call in a private DM by pressing the hotkey combination, myself. And it happened! I was officially asked to be part of a world-class organization, driving forward the most innovative technology the world has seen since the inception of the Internet.Feel free to skip to the TL/DR at the bottom. I immediately tried to manage my expectations but my hopes and dreams bubbled up and I considered the impossible: I would get an offer. The stars aligned and my video consisting of narrated live coding and a high-level explanation of decentralized exchange mechanics was able to meet the high bar of quality ConsenSys demands.Ī mysterious event popped up on my calendar one day from ConsenSys and my heart rate quickened. In my final challenge during my interview period, I was given the opportunity to create a piece of content that built on the amazing work of a graduate of ConsenSys Academy. In fact, the mission of the company is to deliver the best infrastructure and tools for developers to build amazing Web 3.0 applications. Infura is passionate about lowering the barrier of entry for aspiring Web3 developers and reducing the friction between conception of amazing dapps and deployment to mainnet. I met with other amazing team members at Infura and learned about the deep need for evangelism, and developer advocacy and education, inside and outside of the Ethereum ecosystem. Infura ushered entry to the Ethereum blockchain for many profoundly important and pioneering crypto projects such as Metamask, Uniswap, and MakerDAO. Infura is the world’s most powerful suite of APIs and developer tools, giving developers reliable, robust access to numerous blockchain networks. ![]() Not with a recruiter, but with the co-founder of an amazing company, Infura. My first steps into my shiny new Web3 career started with a phone call. It felt just like the very first time I logged onto the internet and entered a seemingly endless world of possibilities. I had the opportunity to leverage my engineering, technical education, and digital marketing skills to engage with and help foster the emerging cryptonative developer community. My dream role, at my dream company, presented itself to me. They were in a hyper-growth phase, riding the wave of increasing awareness and adoption of blockchain technology. He had recently joined a new company called ConsenSys. Near the end of a long period of quarantine and personal stagnation, a fortuitous and serendipitous potential opportunity entered my life: a colleague reached out to me about a life-changing opportunity. I felt like “15/M/VA” again, exploring a new bleeding edge of technology, probing the edges of possibility, and creating new paradigms with the stroke of a key. I thought I could never love technology again.Ĭrypto and Web3 came into my life like an exploding singularity, breathing new passion into my relationship with technology. Portals lead to data about almost anything one could imagine.įast forward to over a decade into my career, and my tender heart had been wounded by just a few too many production outages, weekend on-call rotations, and null pointers. This wild and wonderful place where I existed as a pseudonym and described myself as “15/M/VA” was a place for digital nomads to come together and information-dump about their favorite, obscure interests. ![]() ![]() After the strange sound of two computer modems shaking digital hands completed, I joined a global tribe of curious, computer pioneers exploring a strange, mysterious land called the Internet. A circular disc emblazoned with the AOL logo urged me to, “Sign on today!”. The second significant inflection point in my computing career came through the mail. This was the first time I fell in love with computing.Ī Stranger, in a Strange Land Called the Internet This primitive, monochrome display sparked my lifelong fascination with computers and technology. That’s me, on my first computer, furiously typing DOS commands into the console to summon delightful and captivating moving pixels. My voyage through the world of technology, the Internet, and Blockchain
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