Stuart Larsen, a fifth-year Electrical Engineering student at Michigan Technological University, spent his internship at MongoDB working on the kernel security team, building a new certificate authority system. He was drawn to the company because of its great product and the opportunity to contribute to it. Larsen enjoys using MongoDB in personal projects and appreciates the inside look at how it works. At the office, he prioritizes public transportation and has a typical day that includes bootcamp, team meetings, and working on various security projects. He loves meeting like-minded people and learning from them, and hopes to accomplish as much as possible during his internship. Larsen's long-term goal is to build software for protecting liberties and freedoms, possibly through designing crypto protocols or AI systems.