Meet Mathieu
Mathieu came in as a software developer with more than eight years of professional experience — the early-morning call about Metana's Solidity Bootcamp was enough to make him suspicious. "I thought it was a scam," he admits. Curiosity about Web3 won out anyway, and he decided to give it a shot.
Mathieu's Journey
His existing TypeScript background gave him a running start on Solidity, and he leaned into the program rather than coasting through it — organizing teams for Capture-the-Flag exercises and pulling classmates along with him. Both peers and instructors noticed the energy he brought.
A Big Win
The bet paid off: a remote Blockchain Engineer offer at $110,000 a year plus $20,000 in tokens — a long way from a skeptical 6am phone call about a bootcamp he almost wrote off as a scam.