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Inside the Vercel intern experience
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Vercel's Winter 2026 intern cohort shipped production features across CDN, v0, and financial infrastructure, including routing rules, firewall CLI, and a usage billing API.
This shows Vercel's approach of treating interns as core engineers, giving them ownership of production systems. For engineers, it highlights the expectation that interns can handle high-stakes work, and the potential for rapid learning and impact. It also indicates that Vercel is willing to trust early-career engineers with critical infrastructure.
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Interns shipped features to production across CDN, v0, and financial infrastructure.
Projects included Project-level routing, firewall CLI, and a usage billing API in FOCUS v1.3 format.
The billing API was adopted by Meta, Notion, Porsche, and other companies.
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