Hi people, I would like to share my evidences for Exceptional Talent. Could you check them and tell me if these evidences enough to apply.
I’m highly concerned that
- a lot of things are just fit into the 5 years, from 2018/19-ish, much older than 1-2 years
- a lot of things are github-based (spread over different orgs, over 10 years, from which I highlight last 5, almost everything is public though)
1-LOR: Director at MAANG, CEO of a startup which has been acquired (my skip-skip, I’m just a developer) and now a MAANG’s subsidiary; we were working 1-1 during early startup time
2-LOR: CTO of acquired startup (he left before acquisition), now a “senior staff engineer” at a UK startup, recently became a public traded company
3-LOR: CEO of the previous small non-UK company (~50 employees in linkedin). The product is fully private (medtech) - having hard time proving this company is really product-led w/o consuming evidence slot 
Mandatory:
- (1) Contract with a MAANG subsidiary company: salary, bonus contract pages, screenshot of granted stock in from broker site, P60
- (2) Screenshots supporting LOR1: relevant pages in public help portal of the subsidiary company what I built, LOCs I committed to it’s codebase (~300K, Question does this make sense for them?)
- (3) Contract with the previous non-UK company, worked from home country: salary, job title description pages, monthly invoice (Question is it ok to be a contractor in a product-led company, or strictly “employee”?)
OC2:
- (4) Me in jury of a local hackathon (more than 100 participants, 2018, all-together photo attached)
- (5) My 2 talks in last 5yrs (1 page each)
- a) in 2018: more than 50 members, all-together photo attached, non-english, video with <100 views
- b) in 2019: about 100 people, english, video with >100 && <1000 views , unfortunately no all-together photo , contacted the organizer, he could confirm >100, attached his linkedin) Question: how to handle this case in a better way?
- a) in 2018: more than 50 members, all-together photo attached, non-english, video with <100 views
- (6) mentoring (1 page each)
- a) teaching a course in a university, photo attached, less than 100 people, 2018
- b) stackoverflow: total reach = >10k && <100k people
- c) exercism.io profile: <50 mentored students (Question: worth it? do they know about that or only care about numbers?)
- (7) Me building “communities” (1 page each)
- a) link to an active awesome list with > 100 contributors Question: will technation understand this?
- b) a github org with a mission and several repos, 5 contributors, few stars
- c) me doing a podcast about software (non-english, twitter account has <100 followers, )
OC3
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(8) my OSS contributions to big 3rd parties: Github profile + 2 pages of highlights PRs to projects with >10k stars within the last 5 years: in particular my small commit to the ethereum main repo (code, not docs) and more substantial PRs into less-known orgs/repos/libraries
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(9) personal OSS projects: my profile at a package server (not npm
) with total downloads and 2 pages with highlights of specific projects I created and updated in the last 5 years. (Question: is it ok to refer a repo created more than 5 years ago, but updated in 2021/22?) -
(10) GitHub screenshots supporting LOR3 specifically: github PRs to the medtech libraries; PRs to a well-known webframework the company used, specifically done because edge-case hit the company (> 10k stars, <100k stars) (Question: how good TechNation is at knowing what’s frameworks and a pull request?)
