Request for Review - Software Engineer - TN - Exceptional Promise

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Hello everyone, I am applying for the Technation’s Endorsement - Exceptional promise route and I have just completed the top-level draft of my LORs and evidences.
I will appreciate suggestions and feedbacks on any possible improvements.
Looking forward to your reviews.
@Francisca_Chiedu @Maya @pahuja @hsafra @ellagna @reachusama @alexnk @mahesh3110

Letter Of Recommendations:

  1. CEO of an international blockchain company (worked together for 2 years) - Company A
  2. CTO of an international blockchain company (worked together for over 2 years) - Company A
  3. Senior Cybersecurity Engineer in a top UK bank (worked together for 1 year) - Company B

All LORs will be docu-signed

Mandatory Criteria:

  1. Contributions to a patented open-source project on the Algorand blockchain with over 2.9k followers, ~650 stars, and 1.4k forks. I am the 6th highest contributor and earned a Gold Badge award for my contributions.
  2. Led the development of an open-source crypto payments platform on the Algorand blockchain and received a grant from the foundation to develop it.
  3. Evidence of earnings from Company A being significantly higher than the base and maximum pay for a backend engineer in my geographical location (according to Glassdoor). Showed screenshot of payments (base salary plus bonuses) over 12 months on deel.

Optional Criteria 2

  1. Won multiple highly competitive hackathons, developing innovative solutions on the blockchain. Showed evidence of a few hackathon wins, and sponsors (Circle, Polygon, Scroll, CoreDao, Dorahacks). Also showed Dorahacks profile displaying multiple projects that I’ve built for hackathons.
  2. GitHub profile showing active and continuous development of open-source Software Development Kit (SDKs), including a few technical articles with high viewership on blockchain. One SDK has 800+ downloads, another is included in the official documentation of a top blockchain company as a community-supported package. Also developed created open-source code snippet for building solutions integrating a leading digital asset exchange on Solana blockchain - has over 20 stars.
  3. Technical writing articles on blockchain, showing 2 articles with 3.5k views and 2.2k reads on medium.

Optional Criteria 3

  1. Technical contributions at Company A, Led the development of the data infrastructure that powers the core service offering and aided in securing ~£100k from the Techstars accelerator programme, £160k in Ripple grants, and acceptance into Google Cloud and AWS startup programs. Mentioned in LOR #1
  2. Technical contributions at Company B expanded the events ticketing platform to African and Nigerian events which led to the successful hosting of two concerts where over 5,000+ tickets were booked on the application. I included links to media mentions (do not include my name directly).
  3. Support letter from ex-engineering lead at Company B
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Hi @teepy good set!

Would recommend having a support letter or grant letter for MC2. Do you have 1 more evidence to provide for MC?

In OC3, do the social media links have enough engagement? If they don’t mention your link, it’s only self-claims. You will need to back them up with some external validation directly linked to you. OC3.3 support letter is better fit as a support for OC3.2 if it only talks about contribution and impact in company B.

In OC3.1 ensure you show quantified metrics impact. Acceptance into accelerators is one step ahead. You first need to show impact of the work.

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Hey @pahuja, Thank you very much for your review and feedback

For the MC2, I included a screenshot of the docu-signed contract detailing the terms of the Grant as well as a drive link to the document. I also added a screenshot and link to the Ecosystem funding report document uploaded by the Algorand Foundation with link to the tweet. Will this be enough?

Concerning, the extra MC evidence, I don’t have any other evidence.

For the OC3, the web links just shows the proof that the event tickets were purchased on Company B and the LOR will also mention that I built the feature that powers the event ticket purchase on the platform. Will a combination of publicly verifiable proof of the concerts as well as the information in the LOR for company B suffice as well?

For the Quantifiable metrics, I would appreciate if you can help with some examples that might support my evidence

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I somewhere saw on forum, it is advised not to use drive links. Only links to online media like URLs are suggested. I suggest please do due diligence on this

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I will only include the screenshots then

Thanks for your suggestions @muks

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You can actually include drive links to the full document from the screenshot. That allows them to get more details for example, employment contract etc.

I did that when I applied.

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