Welcome to Status.im & the the magical world of web3 & Ξthereum
As a contributor you'll be helping find and attract talent across a range of projects & teams, so to help you overcome the learning curve here is a general guide of how we're currently working together and an overview of us.
Great to have you in the team! ✌️
## Talent Team Org
It's a flat structure & for reporting purposes Carl oversees the department, however he's happy for us to manage ourselves and our own workload.
Here are some of the teams you may work with, some have their own team page where they explain more about the projects. We've added a short explanation of what the teams do but feel free to read more into them by looking through the links or just ping them on [discord](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1f5dVUWvjlK9B0yJj9Q0H-QdwnTVYZCybM924zoEGxko/edit#gid=1667903443) 🤙
### [Nim:](https://nimbus.team/)
Zahary heads up Nimbus, a team that focuses on developing an Ethereum client and library targeting both Ethereum and the upcoming, proof-of-stake-based ETH2. Nimbus will be designed to perform well on embedded, mobile and generally resource-restricted devices. The extensible, configurable, and modular design of Nimbus will make it production ready for Web 3.0 and will ensure that it can be supported and maintained across all goals of Ethereum 2.0.
### [Vac:](https://vac.dev/)
Oskar heads up Vac, a team that focuses on building a communications tool with security, censorship resistance and privacy in mind. It's built in a modular way, with a peer-to-peer messaging stack for private, secure, censorship resistant communication. For more info check out this [blog post](https://vac.dev/waku-v2-ethereum-messaging)
### Codex (Formerly Dagger)
Dmitriy leads Codex and Libp2p projects, a team that focuses on P2p networks are at the heart of decentralized technologies and libp2p has quickly gained popularity as the goto p2p stack. At Status, we’ve successfully implemented and deployed a fully fledged libp2p stack and it’s now powering the Nimbus Ethereum 2 client. Codex are responsible for distributed file storage within Status.im
### Keycard
Guy-Louis heads up Keycard, a team that focuses on a new type of smartcard and open source API for simple integration with crypto wallets, DApps, and hardware. Designed to safely send, store, and receive cryptocurrencies in a seamless contactless experience. Guy-Louis is Product Manager for Keycard.
### Blockchain Infrastructure
Alvaro leads Blockchain Infrastructure, a team that focuses on building the foundation used by other projects at the [Status Network](https://statusnetwork.com/). They are researching consensus algorithms, multi-party computation techniques, ZKPs and other cutting-edge solutions with the aim to take the blockchain technology to the next level of security, decentralization and scalability for a wide range of use cases. They're currently in a research phase, working with models and simulations & plan to move onto implementing the research in the future.
### [Product Design:](https://design.status.im/)
Hester is UX Lead for Status, her team are working across all areas; mobile, desktop & communities. Partnering closely with Engineers and working across all the product teams.
### Mobile
Andrea heads up the Mobile team, they are responsible for all of the Status.im features and improvements. A mix of UI Engineers, QA Engineers who partner closely with the Design team to transform UI specifications into beautiful, smooth, performant and near pixel perfect interactive interfaces.
### Desktop
Iuri is the Team Lead focussed on launching Status for Desktop, which is currently in beta for Mac, Windows and Linux platforms. The product focus is on the privacy-centric messenger and group chat functionality, and they’ve just kicked off development of a new ‘multi-chain from the ground up’ crypto Wallet. ÐApp browser and blockchain node functionality will follow next. Status desktop is currently built using Nim & QT for the frontend, and it shares a common backend with Status mobile that is written in Go.
### Marketing
Marketing work closely with our engineering, product and research teams to help support the [Status App](https://status.im/) & [Status Network](https://statusnetwork.com/) marketing efforts. This is done across both the mobile and desktop applications as well as the Status Network is all about help to educate developers, and users on the protocols, infrastructure, and use-cases.
## Overview of how Status was formed
Carl & Jarrad have been working together for about a decade on various businesses, prior to Status they ran a digital marketing firm and a software distribution business. It was actually through targeted advertising that they were exposed to how data is bought and sold, and how invasive it is, which spurred their interest in privacy-preserving technologies.
There are several early interviews & talks on our [youtube](https://www.youtube.com/c/Statusim/videos?view=0&sort=da&flow=grid) and plenty of other content including our company stand-ups. Take a look through [State of Us](https://our.status.im/state-of-us/)
We use a variety of tools & platforms and encourage everyone to use their own preferences depending on the role that is being hired, this includes new job boards, platforms & tools that haven't been used before. Generally we track all the platforms in use [here](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1G1Wy5EKeZX_c8zzA2TZ_NFw6UgdeEqoro2aSAieTHLQ/edit#gid=1196731026) and edit them as we go
We like to work smart, meaning using platforms that will get the best results & attract the right candidates and that can be discussed with the hiring teams too, as some of them have preferences about where we find talent.
### For some self learning, how about browsing the following:
- A lot of tech content on [weekinethereumnews](https://weekinethereumnews.com/) but good to keep half an eye on 😁
- [CrypcurrencyJobs](https://cryptocurrencyjobs.co/) is a seful for seeing other projects and roles in the space (we use this site for most of our job posting)
- You can usually find interesting/useful content on [medium](https://medium.com/)
- [Web3 Foundation](https://web3.foundation/) has good reads
- Also, follow the big names in blockchain on twitter and dig into any LI groups in the space (although the members are usually hobbyists / recruiters 🤣 )
- Reddit, github, Discord all things crypto/blockchain
- All the [status website](https://status.im/) / [blogs](https://our.status.im/) you can read to familiarise yourself with what we're doing including the latest town halls on [Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/statusim)
- This is a good place to review [what we offer](https://people-ops.status.im/) our contributors:
- Lots of great intros [here](https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/intro-to-ethereum/)
- Ethereum [use cases](https://www.gemini.com/cryptopedia/ethereum-smart-contracts-tokens-use-cases#section-decentralized-autonomous-organizations) and more
- You can also subscribe to [cryptopedia](https://www.gemini.com/cryptopedia) 🙌
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