Internship Experience: Cryptography Engineer

In the summer of 2017, Watson Ladd was an intern at Cloudflare where he worked on implementing a set of three interrelated Internet drafts aimed at improving connection reuse and reducing unnecessary time in loading resources. The project involved building a prototype using Go standard library and later integrating it into production systems based on variants of NGINX. Despite the challenges faced, Ladd gained valuable experience in collaborating on large software projects, working with git, and communicating with other implementers about issues found. He has since returned to Cloudflare full-time, continuing his work on extensions for TLS and time synchronization.