What is the string on the BillForward job ad?

1 pointJ-dawg4 comments

This job ad on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11829255

gives a 36 character string as the contact details:

> contact aWFuIEFUIGJpbGxmb3J3YXJkIERPVCBuZXQ=

What is this? Is it a puzzle for applicants to solve? Or a new way of avoiding email spam?

Sorry if this is an incredibly stupid question

It's a base64 string. Out of curiosity, what's your background?

Thanks for the answer.

I'm just a wannabe web developer who really ought to know this stuff. Sorry for spamming HN with my stupid question.

Na bro don't be hard on yourself. Being a dev means you're always learning!

someone's email address. base64 encoded