Description 

Company background: AID:Tech's Transparency Engine and TraceDonate products are now being used by some of the world's most impactful organisations. We've brought transparency to the delivery of aid, traceability to donations and channeled remittances towards socially responsible services. Our platform is now positioned for growth and scaling to handle high volumes of users.

Additional Information

Aside from being a socially impactful organisation, our team comprises members of strong start-up pedigree, including Techstars and Entrepreneur First alumni. We also pride ourselves on being highly selective in who we take in by performing agile but thorough QA on our future colleagues and interns.

Technically, our team has contributed to multiple Linux Foundation projects, including Hyperledger Composer, the Fabric CA, Helm (including Charts for deploying Hyperledger Fabric and Composer) and have even open-sourced a library for deploying Hyperledger Fabric on Kuberntes, Nephos.

Furthermore, we have been active in helping educate the community, by releasing:

• A Composer chapter on the EdX course Blockchain for Business
• A course on Packt,  Udemy and O’Reilly called Hyperledger for Blockchain Applications
• A webinar on deploying Hyperledger Fabric on Kubernetes
• A workshop (see video below) on the Hyperledger Global Forum

Learning Objectives

Depending on the relative skills of the potential intern, we are likely to work on one or more of several objectives:

- Expansion of the capabilities of Nephos, our open source python library to deploy Hyperledger Fabric networks to Kubernetes.
- Improvements to our Helm charts for deploying Hyperledger Fabric components to Kubernetes.
- Contributing to our Fabric Node.js connector SDK, for simplifying access to Fabric capabilities, including installation, management and instantiation of chaincode.

Expected Outcome

Relation to Hyperledger 

Hyperledger Fabric, Composer, Chaincode, Kubernetes/Helm.

Education Level

Suitable for Undergraduate or Masters level.

Skills

Our tech stack is Linux-centric (so it's great if you know bash/zsh), and we use a lot of JavaScript (Node.js) and related front and back-end tools, as well as Python. We also use Microservices via container (Docker) orchestration (Kubernetes/Helm). Some knowledge/interest in Cryptography/Blockchain also won't go amiss.

We don't expect you to master our entire tech stack. With a decent amount of motivation you can pick up missing tech skills over the course of the internship.

But we do expect you to be passionate about computer science and building robust, well-tested software (through solid documentation and unit and functional tests), and know how to develop it in a robust and agile way while collaborating with others (we are using trunk-based development). We'd love to see one of the hobby projects you hacked in your free time.

Future plans

The end of the internship does not need to mean an end to collaboration. It may well be your stepping stone to a permanent role at AID:Tech or you may wish to continue collaborating with us on the open-source outcomes of the internship.

Preferred Hours and Length of Internship

Full-time for Summer

Mentor(s) Names and Contact Info

Alejandro (Sasha) Vicente Grabovetsky, alexvicegrab, AID:Tech

Nicola Paoli, nicolapaoli, AID:Tech