cuevasm
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2 years ago Brings me great joy to see this application officially come through. As I mentioned over here, we've received a number of applications and provided feedback and in some cases redirected folks to more suitable positions. (Look out very soon for more exciting Clarity related residency developments 💯 )
Anyway, the Whitelabel team has been so impressive from my first interaction, they come vouched for by Kenny Rogers here at the foundation who used to work there, and are fully prepared to deliver on Clarity Camp in a major way, as well as take advantage of the partnerships and new directions it's primed for. They have a track record of training developers in Web 3 and bring a wealth of experience in Solidity to the table as well. They've also experienced Clarity Camp and are passionate about helping unleash the language further.
I fully endorse Ciara, Tim, and company for this position and look forward to their presentation to the community. @will-at-stacks is currently scheduling that!
proiacm
What's your name/your team's name? Whitelabel Collaborative
Best email on which to contact you? tim@varner.co, ciara@wlabel.co, aakanksha@wlabel.co
Personal Statement In order to help the Stacks ecosystem grow, we believe it’s vitally important to continually equip developers to join the community. A training program is necessary to achieve this goal. We’re invested in the success of this program, making sure it improves cohort over cohort and is a great service to those developers entering the community.
In order to accomplish this, we will maintain a small team of developers who share in the teaching workload, allowing us to achieve both redundancy and scale. Moreover, the team should be able to better accommodate logistical concerns, such as timezone differences.
The effort will be initially led by CiaraMaria Proia, with the assistance and Aakanksha Mahajan.
CiaraMaria Proia is a web3 developer who has been involved in the Stacks community since the summer of ’21 as one of the OG NFT collectors under the pseudonym [redacted].btc. Her enthusiasm for blockchain technology and the emerging Stacks ecosystem led her to begin learning Clarity and attend Clarity U cohort 2. She is currently involved in multiple projects throughout the ecosystem and is excited to work with the Stacks Foundation to bring more comprehensive education and resources to current and future Clarity devs.
Aakanksha Mahajan is a Full Stack Developer with 6+ years of industry experience in the design and implementation of web-based applications across diversified technology stacks and a range of programming languages. Her Web3 enthusiasm has led her to deeply explore blockchain development (beginning with solidity) and get familiar with the Stacks ecosystem. Aakanksha has tremendous skill at helping less experienced developers develop their knowledge base and a comfort level with new languages.
End Product It is our hope that the training program continues long beyond the length of this residency, but our end goal for the first six months is to optimize the current materials, making them more test-driven and interactive. We believe these optimizations will allow us to scale, which is the ultimate goal. Specifically, our goals include an average of 12 students per cohort, a new cohort launching every 3 weeks, running not less than 2 cohorts in parallel.
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