I was asked to do an introductory session on WPO for the course “Network software and architectures” at Hasselt University and interweave that with my story (how my WPO-related bachelor & master thesis got me an internship at Facebook) to indicate this is not a far-fetched thing — any one of the students in the audience can do this, if they’re interested!
Required background: general web development knowledge, general network knowledge, know what a CDN is.