The budget was determined by careful analysis of what core features we need to build, and revised with input from the Gitcoin community and members of the Gitcoin Passport dev team.

While wrapping the Gitcoin Passport's publicly-available API endpoints seems simple enough, the security of user credentials is critical. Adequate time must be spent to build this tool with best practices in regard to user authentication and secure storing of user keys and credentials.

Currently, the team is one person, Alex Wagner, a developer with two years of experience. Two members of the Gitcoin Passport dev team have verbally committed to providing periodic guidance and review to the project while Passport CLI is being built.

The funding will allow Alex to work on Passport CLI full-time for three months, at a modest developer rate of $30/hr.