22.SUM.8 | Solana Sharks

Solana Sharks was a group of 14 students (fellows) from all over the world who graduated from the MLH Internship in the summer of 2022. The team worked on two projects: Solana Bounty (4 fellows) and Solana Whitelisting Contract (10 fellows).

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Message from MLH Team

  • Jay Nappy

    President, Fellowship | MLH

    Take advantage of every opportunity this program has to offer: finish that PR, take the interview, meet with your pod mates one last time. Looking back, asking "what if..." is never fun.

  • Alex Gornet

    Partner Success Manager | MLH

    These last 12 weeks were a blur, but in reality they're only the beginning for you. You all contributed in some way to building the future of blockchain, and I have no doubt each of you will continue building things that impact the world. Dream big and take it one step at a time!

  • Will Russell

    Program Delivery | MLH

    Congratulations to all of our wonderful fellows this Summer! 22.SUM.8, you've come a long way! A lot of you had never touched Blockchain/Web3 before the summer and now you're making dApps like a pro! I'm super excited to see what's next for your journeys! If you haven't already, connect with each other on LinkedIn and continue engaging even after the program! You can connect with me too

  • Gage Bachik

    Maintainer | Solana Wallet Based Whitelisting Contract

    I would say grasping the data model consideration of Solana is the hardest part. By the end of the fellowship I felt our pod had a great handle on what to consider when archeticting a solana app. From simple things as what should be used as a pda, to how to more complexs structures and security checks such as authority models in Solana programs. I'd encourage any of the student to go out and build their own ideas for onchain apps now! Take what you learned and apply it to anything you think would be cool to work on. I'm sure you'll run into some snags along the way but if you just come back this project as an example I don't think it'll take any of you too long to get passed them and thats whats most important.

  • Thank you @Leah Caputo, @Wei He, @Arsalan Dilawar and all the other MLH team members, Pod Leaders for your support and commitment to the MLH community. 😁 Without you, this wouldn't be possible!

    • Fellows of 22.SUM.8

    • Alfred Okang

      Alfred Okang | Solana Wallet Based Whitelisting Contract

      Three things I learnt from Fellowship

      Meeting deadlines and working w/ a team

      My Successes

      Learning a great deal about solana and anchor especially. Now i have an understanding of how to build dapps using the blockchain and can continue to grow from there

      My overall fellowship experience

      My fellowship experience was very good, I got to learn a lot while contributing to a real project. I hope to have more experiences like this in the future

      Fellow Tech Stack

      ShadowDrive storage w/ rust/wasm front-end, rust middleware hosted on linode for communicating between the client and the server.

    • Carlos Martin León

      Carlos Martin León | Solana Wallet Based Whitelisting Contract

      Three things I learnt from Fellowship

      Solana ecosystem, Remote work and I have improved coding skills with new languages.

      My Successes

      I have learned many new skills in the fellowship, involving a lot of different areas of the project(smart contract + backend + frontend) while also competing in blockchain hackathons with those. Also, one of my biggest successes is having met great people :)

      My overall fellowship experience

      Very good, I am 100% sure that has been extremely worth it.

      Fellow Tech Stack

      Rust, Javascript + Typescript + React, Python

    • David Tran

      David Tran | Solana Wallet Based Whitelisting Contract

      Three things I learnt from Fellowship

      Anchor, Rust, Web3 development!

      My Successes

      I was able to build a full-stack Web3 app that implemented a whitelisting solution on the Solana blockchain: all technologies that I have never used before.

      My overall fellowship experience

      Good! We were given a lot of autonomy to learn the parts of Anchor/Solana that interested us, and we were able to apply what we learned to a real life project.

      Fellow Tech Stack

      C++ all-around :)

    • Hares Mahmood

      Hares Mahmood | Solana Bounty Program

      Three things I learnt from Fellowship

      · How to make the most out of the Next.js framework (in no small part by bombarding Héctor with questions throughout the Fellowship). · Soft skills, such as improving inter-team communication and presentation skills. · Web3 and on-chain calls and interactions, working with the Solana ecosystem in general.

      My Successes

      It's crazy to think I've designed the UI for an official Solana product that hopefully going to be useful for a substantial amount of people.

      My overall fellowship experience

      It was amazing - Working on the Solana Bounty program was an amazing experience, and having helped ship an end-to-end, fully functional product at the end of the Fellowship felt incredibly rewarding.

      Fellow Tech Stack

      Next, Tailwind, Vercel

    • Héctor Reyes Manrique

      Héctor Reyes Manrique | Solana Bounty Program

      Three things I learnt from Fellowship

      Web3, backend (mainly auth), teamwork

      My Successes

      We were able to finish the Solana Bounty Program (https://solana-bounty-program.vercel.app/) on time and with all features in place! I'm glad that we submitted it to the Solana Summer Camp Hackathon and that all interested parties were satisfied with the result.

      My overall fellowship experience

      Loved every second! It's an amazing opportunity for aspiring open-source developers to sharpen their skills, network, and have a really good time. Personally, I learned a lot about teamwork. Would definitely recommend!

      Fellow Tech Stack

      Framer Motion, Next.js/Remix, PlanetScale, Prisma, React, React Aria / RadixUI, Tailwind CSS / Chakra UI, TypeScript

    • Ishan Rawat

      Ishan Rawat | Solana Wallet Based Whitelisting Contract

      Three things I learnt from Fellowship

      Solana, Blockchain, TypeScript

      My Successes

      Got a very good intro into the web3 ecosystem and the scope ahead

      My overall fellowship experience

      Excellent. I learnt a lot, I made new friends, and above all I enjoyed a lot.

      Fellow Tech Stack

      C++, Visual Studio

    • Julian Elmasry

      Julian Elmasry | Solana Wallet Based Whitelisting Contract

      Three things I learnt from Fellowship

      -How to write a solana smart contract, -How to use the anchor framework, -Deeper understanding of blockchain and its use cases

      My Successes

      -Developing a whitelisting smart contract solution and integrating it with a working frontend

      My overall fellowship experience

      Very good!

      Fellow Tech Stack

      Within the fellowship we used anchor which is built off of rust, as well as NextJS for the front end

    • Rudransh Sharma

      Rudransh Sharma | Solana Wallet Based Whitelisting Contract

      Three things I learnt from Fellowship

      Collaboration, Rust, Solana ecosystem

      My Successes

      Learning Rust, something which I've been putting off for a long time and finally be able to write smart contracts on Solana which seemed so daunting at first

      My overall fellowship experience

      It was really amazing I had so much fun learning and building

      Fellow Tech Stack

      React, Flask, Mongo, Solidity/Eth, Rust/Solana, Dart/Flutter

    • Saurav Fouzdar

      Saurav Fouzdar | Solana Wallet Based Whitelisting Contract

      Three things I learnt from Fellowship

      - How to work in team - Learned about solana and about blockchains in general - It was good talking and working with pod mates from different countries

      My Successes

      - Learned about solana blockchain and web3 - Managed to complete the fellowship project - Will be attending solana hacker house next months , thinking about hackathon project ideas.

      My overall fellowship experience

      It was amazing overall, would love to be fellow again :)

      Fellow Tech Stack

      I like C and C++, previously have worked with MERN and Python(Django).

    • Wenjing Wei

      Wenjing Wei | Solana Wallet Based Whitelisting Contract

      Three things I learnt from Fellowship

      1. How to develop apps on Solana chain. 2. How to make contributions to open source projects. 3. How to work in a team.

      My Successes

      I think my biggest success was that I learned how to learn programming and many other stuffs on my own. This ability has been the single most important key on my career switch path.

      My overall fellowship experience

      Great experience!

      Fellow Tech Stack

      Still figuring this part out!

    • William Wang

      William Wang | Solana Bounty Program

      Three things I learnt from Fellowship

      1. What is Web 3 2. Using next.js 3. How to use pull requests to contribute to a large scale project with multiple contributors.

      My Successes

      Implemented the website interface which is fully responsive. Implemented wallet integration allowing user connect their wallet to claim bounties and get rewards.

      My overall fellowship experience

      It was a fun experience. I learned a lot from collaborating with my teammate to complete the project.

      Fellow Tech Stack

      MERN stack

    • Zeyad Tarek

      Zeyad Tarek | Solana Bounty Program

      Three things I learnt from Fellowship

      Nextjs, Reactjs, TailwindCSS

      My Successes

      I'm so proud and happy with my contributions to the Solana bounty program

      My overall fellowship experience

      I'm so happy with my fellowship journey as I learned many things, collaborated with wonderful people, and gained a lot of experience.

      Fellow Tech Stack

      MERN, mainly interested at backend development