17 Apps and a Lifetime of Experience

17, built apps/products which are being used by 5 million+ users, interned at startups & non-profits. Looking for advice on what to do with my life now. Help Qualifications: currently in 12th grade. Tech Stack: Rust, Golang, Typescript, Python & WebAssembly (WASM). Decent amount of experience with DevOps pipelines. Have worked and built projects with Astro & Next.js. Proficient with Linux and sysadmin stuff. Open to learning new technologies. I also worked with Hetzner, AWS/GCP in a hobby project so decent amount of experience with them too. Certifications: EJPTv2, preparing for CCNA and OSCP. Test Scores: 1490 in SAT, C2 in IELTS. (95.6% in 10th, 93.2% in 11th if that matters) Experience/ECS: • Built apps which have been used in a hundreds of communities with over millions of users. Still being used on a daily basis to support their workflow. Worked closely with community builders, leaders and maintainers when building them. • Built & contributed to several open source projects. • Maintained a heavy traffic repository for several months, reviewed 30-40 PRs. • Interned (paid) at an US based startup (2021-2022), main tech stack was Golang and Rust. • Interned at a non profit for 3-4 months. • Mentor at an open source summer programming program. • Lead of school CS club, organized workshops and stuff. • Won some hackathons. Tried to organize my own hackathon too but it didn't work out (shitty ass high school, teachers don't understand anything beyond test marks). • Participated in CTFs and won a lot of CTFs. • Occasional bug bounties. • School debate club lead, debate/quiz winner (state-level). • Lead of a reverse engineering and malware development research group. • English & CS Olympiad. • Built an app when I was in eighth grade (2021) which got over 2.5K+ downloads on Google Play Store. • Won 2 competitive programming competitions. Queries:

A screenshot of a Reddit post from a 17-year-old student listing an absurdly impressive résumé: millions of users, internships, open-source work, cybersecurity certifications, elite test scores, hackathons, and leadership experience. The joke is the mismatch between the poster’s age and achievements, followed by “Looking for advice on what to do with my life now,” making it a humorous reaction to overachievers and impossible career standards. EN: A screenshot of a Reddit post from a 17-year-old student listing an absurdly impressive résumé: millions of users, internships, open-source work, cybersecurity certifications, elite test scores, hackathons, and leadership experience. The joke is the mismatch between the poster’s age and achievements, followed by “Looking for advice on what to do with my life now,” making it a humorous reaction to overachievers and impossible career standards.

• @gentoomemes / 14200 2024-10-21