OpenZeppelin Template

Working in
Web2 vs Web3
Ernesto García
ernesto@openzeppelin.com
Our mission is to protect
the open economy
OpenZeppelin is a software company that

provides security audits and products for
decentralized systems.
Projects from any size -from new startups to

established organizations- trust OpenZeppelin to
build, inspect and connect to the open economy.
2
4+ million downloads
Security, Reliability and Build
Risk Management
OpenZeppelin provides a complete suite Security and

of security and reliability products to build, Reliability
manage, and inspect all aspects of software
Inspect Manage
development and operations for Ethereum
projects.
200+ audits
3
A quick story
Disclaimer:
This is completely personal and I DONʼT SPEAK on behalf of OpenZeppelin and its stakeholders
https://openzeppelin.com
That was going to be me.
But nope.
Paycut
36.5 USD/hr 12,000 MXN/month
12,000 MXN/month 25,000 MXN/month
🥳🎉?
¿En qué equipos estuve?
Chrome Security UX
● Great mentors
○ Emily Stark was amazing
○ My “official” mentor still follows me on IG
● Not a great team 😢
○ Felt like my team was just playing, not
working
● Not a great project
○ It was literally a “do whatever you want”
FWIW, there was actually nothing to work on

Is Certificate Transparency usable | Emily Stark (Google) | RWC 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_rwG7MA5VU
Highlights?
Chrome
Contributions 🥳
Tested beta Cryptography

features 📝 research? 🤔
Bad?
Project shut down a week

after the interns left 😒
Solution Accelerations (o algo así en Google cloud)
● My manager’s name was Xin Gao (lmao)

● Defined project
● They sold me the project as a Go project, but
it was more of a Terraform/Infrastructure thing
● My manager was becoming the team
manager at the time
Highlights?
Cryptography
again? 🤔
Open Source
contributions 🤓
Highlights?
I’ve met Sina and got to know some people

interested in Blockchain inside of Google
(spoiler: They all left)
Bad?
Never reached master.

Nobody really cared after I
left 😒
But…
I got a positive recommendation
from a Google Engineer with
OpenZeppelin
Summary
● Google está bien, pero:

○ Impuestos altos
○ Bajo sentido de propósito
○ Ritmo lento
○ Le pagan bien a los interns… (alch no banda, hasta la mochila estaba más fea)
● Sigue siendo un increíble lugar para hacer carrera
● Existen proyectos de investigación interesantes, y gente muy valiosa
● Sigue siendo una apuesta segura
Whatʼs OpenZeppelin like?
Whatʼs Web3 like?
I applied to two companies:
How to be a pirate?
Strong research culture
Ability to Ship Commitment to Healthy work style
Excellence
Strong sense of Intellectual Curiosity Team Spirit

Purpose
Mientras tanto yo…
Might be a startup thing,
not a web3 thing….
I donʼt think so
Web3 things
● Work wherever you want, we don’t give a shit

● We’ll pay you the same no matter where you are
● You’ll be contributing to the most exciting computer science and cryptography research
topics of the century
○ ZK Snarks/Stark
■ Provable Computation
○ Layer 2s
○ Economic Threats/Hacks
○ MEV (Maximum Extractable Value)
○ Finance protocol design
○ Auditing
○ Security Research
● The values in web3 are more related to openness and public goods, rather than private
equity capital and VC funds
● PUBLIC GOODS!
Even in web3 there are differences
Protocol Researcher Node Developer Protocol Layer
Scalability and Layer 2

General Research
Defi Solidity Developer

Application Layer
Auditor
Management
Systems
Wallets Librerías Tooling
Research Development
Working on your own
https://twitter.com/dabit3/status/1488647294111125521
We donʼt care that much
about the price
docs.openzeppelin.com
blog.openzeppelin.com
forum.openzeppelin.com
defender.openzeppelin.com
Weʼre hiring!
zpl.in/join
Blockchain Security Engineer

Full Stack Ethereum Developer
Technical Project Manager
Community Manager
Application UX Designer
Thank you!
Learn more Contact
openzeppelin.com . @ernestognw
forum.openzeppelin.com ernesto@openzeppelin.com
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Working in

OpenZeppelin is a software company that

Projects from any size -from new startups to

Security, Reliability and Build

OpenZeppelin provides a complete suite Security and

FWIW, there was actually nothing to work on

Tested beta Cryptography

Project shut down a week

● My manager’s name was Xin Gao (lmao)

I’ve met Sina and got to know some people

(spoiler: They all left)

Never reached master.

● Google está bien, pero:

Strong sense of Intellectual Curiosity Team Spirit

● Work wherever you want, we don’t give a shit

Protocol Researcher Node Developer Protocol Layer

Scalability and Layer 2

Defi Solidity Developer

Blockchain Security Engineer

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