# Inside the Vercel intern experience

DevFeed: [Inside the Vercel intern experience](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/inside-the-vercel-intern-experience-758.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://vercel.com/blog/inside-the-vercel-intern-experience>)

Author: Robin Lee

Published: 2026-08-13T04:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Vercel News](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/vercel-news.md>)

Topics: [Vercel](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vercel.md>), [Command-line interface](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cli.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [Firewall](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/firewall.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [dashboards](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dashboards.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [cli](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cli.md>), [firewall](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/firewall.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [ui](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ui.md>), [vercel](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vercel.md>)

## AI overview

Vercel describes its Winter '26 intern experience, highlighting interns who shipped production features across the CDN, dashboard, CLI, Firewall, Security, v0, financial infrastructure, and AI Gateway products.

## Source excerpt

The best way to learn is by shipping product to users in production, and that's why we don't treat our interns as temporary guests. Every intern at Vercel is expected to operate like a core part of our engineering team from day one. This past winter, we welcomed a small cohort of those interns to our headquarters in San Francisco. Over an intense four months, they contributed to some of our most important products: the CDN, v0, financial infrastructure, AI Gateway, and more. They shipped features used by millions, helped close the gap for enterprise deals, and in more than a few cases, left a mark that will outlast their time here. Meet the Winter '26 intern cohortYash Kothari, CDN Team University of Waterloo What Yash shipped: Yash's internship spanned the full CDN stack, from infrastructure to CLI to UI in the dashboard. His first major project was Project-level routing, which is part of the new CDN tab in the Vercel dashboard. This feature lets customers update routing rules, including redirects, rewrites, and header transforms, from the dashboard, API, CLI, or SDK, without needing to redeploy their project or touch a single line of code. Yash built the underlying API endpoints (including a staging/publish workflow), the vercel routes CLI commands, and contributed AI-powered route generation. Right after launch, hundreds of teams immediately adopted it and created thousands of rules. "One of my favorite things about my internship was that at Vercel you get a lot of autonomy and ownership," Yash said. "I hopped on calls with enterprise customers, saw my work featured on Vercel's changelog, and demoed my work in a live YouTube community session." In the second half of his internship, Yash worked on Vercel's Firewall and Security products. He shipped the vercel firewall CLI command, enabling users and AI agents to configure custom rules, IP blocks, and firewall controls directly from the terminal. He also built an AI-powered Firewall Rule Builder that lets users des