Blockchain & Crypto Intern - Future Interns - Remote
(2025-12 - 2026-01)
- Deployed ERC-20 smart contracts on Polygon Amoy Testnet using Solidity and OpenZeppelin
- Built a real-time Crypto Portfolio Tracker with Next.js 14 and CoinGecko API integration
Open Source Contributor - metaplex-foundation
Rust & Solana Ecosystem
- Replaced macro panics with syn::Error, validated duplicate account indices, added sparse indexing support (shank)
Open Source Contributor - rust-lang
Rust & Solana Ecosystem
- Implemented circular publish dependency cycle detection in workspace publish (cargo)
- Added test suite to reproduce and track rustfix panics caused by overlapping compiler suggestions (cargo)
- Suggest a workspace.members entry even from outside the workspace root via pathdiff integration (cargo)
- Fixed path qualification bug in add_missing_impl_members where parameter names were incorrectly qualified (rust-analyzer)
Open Source Contributor - Byron
Rust & Solana Ecosystem
- Implemented DFS-based cycle detection for indirect type recursion, unblocking Slides, Chat, and Dialogflow API generation (google-apis-rs)
- Added is_transient() to Error enum to distinguish transient vs permanent errors for retry logic (google-apis-rs)
Open Source Contributor - samuelvanderwaal
Rust & Solana Ecosystem
- High-performance parallelization using rayon and DashMap with Metaplex Core integration (metaboss)
Open Source Contributor - Azure
Rust & Solana Ecosystem
- Refactored UserAgentPolicy, eliminated redundant string allocations, added strict CRLF header validation (azure-sdk-for-rust)
Open Source Contributor - helius-labs
Rust & Solana Ecosystem
- Resolved internal TODOs, fixed ambiguous glob re-exports, migrated staking functions (helius-rust-sdk)
Open Source Contributor - solana-foundation
Rust & Solana Ecosystem
- Implemented Redis blockhash caching with 5s TTL to reduce repetitive RPC network calls (kora)
