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Hrishikesh Huilgolkar

I am an experienced Smart contract and dapp developer. I am author of Blade protocol. I was ranked 199th out of 120,000 data scientists worldwide on kaggle.com. I am extremely passionate about decentralized technologies, especially Ethereum.
  • Role

    DApp Developer

  • Years of Experience

    7 years

Skillsets

  • Consensus Algorithms
  • Decentralized technologies
  • Smart Contracts

Professional Summary

7Years
  • Jun, 2017 - Present8 yr 10 months

    Developer

    Consensys AG - Variabl
  • Nov, 2016 - Aug, 2017 9 months

    Senior Software engineer

    Innominds Software
  • May, 2016 - Oct, 2016 5 months

    Product manager

    Adwyze
  • Dec, 2012 - May, 2013 5 months

    Predictive analyst

    Quantium
  • May, 2013 - Dec, 20141 yr 7 months

    Product manager

    Quantium
  • Aug, 2015 - Jan, 2016 5 months

    Cofounder

    Pocket Change
  • Jul, 2011 - Nov, 20121 yr 4 months

    Full stack web developer

    Freelance developer

Applications & Tools Known

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    Solidity

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    truffle

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    Python

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    Angular 2

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    Ruby on Rails

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    R

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    HTML/CSS

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    MySQL

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    Linux

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    AWS

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    Docker

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    Vagrant

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    Unity 3D

Work History

7Years

Developer

Consensys AG - Variabl
Jun, 2017 - Present8 yr 10 months
    Core research engineer, designed and developed a novel state channel for a derivatives exchange. Developed smart contracts in Ethereum - Solidity. Developed state channel infrastructure using nodejs.

Senior Software engineer

Innominds Software
Nov, 2016 - Aug, 2017 9 months
    Architected and lead a blockchain Identity product based on ethereum and IPFS. Architected and lead a blockchain Proxy voting POC using ethereum and IPFS. Architected a private blockchain project with transaction level privacy using JPMC Quorum.

Product manager

Adwyze
May, 2016 - Oct, 2016 5 months
    Managed an internet marketing product as a product manager. Redesigned UX of several modules, managed product roadmap. Involved in client communication, stakeholder management, scrum and agile project management.

Cofounder

Pocket Change
Aug, 2015 - Jan, 2016 5 months
    FinTech startup to solve the problem of leftover foreign currency by converting it to gift cards. Did extensive research on ethereum and decentralized technologies. Designed and developed software for the cash deposit kiosk and backend web application.

Product manager

Quantium
May, 2013 - Dec, 20141 yr 7 months
    Designed and managed BI platform glue for nonprofit organizations to analyse and visualize data easily. Recruited, trained and managed developers. Designed the technical architecture and led software development. Implemented SCRUM, led sprints, designed UX.

Predictive analyst

Quantium
Dec, 2012 - May, 2013 5 months
    Studied and analyzed Australian general insurance industry. Data analysis, visualization designs and prototypes which laid foundation for the BI product - Glue. Designed and formulated new metrics to track engagement for South African social network - Mxit.

Full stack web developer

Freelance developer
Jul, 2011 - Nov, 20121 yr 4 months
    Worked as a full stack web developer.

Achievements

  • Author of Blade protocol
  • Ranked 199th out of 120,000 data scientists on kaggle
  • Contributor to Ethereum/Casper
  • Level 3 at Project Euler

Major Projects

11Projects

Blade protocol

    A protocol for adding security guarantees for hardware wallets.

Ethereum/Casper

    Contributor to Casper protocol for Ethereum.

An ebook marketplace on Ethereum/IPFS

    An ebook marketplace using IPFS and Ethereum.

Raiden ethereum payment network

    Contributor to Raiden network.

web3js-quorum a web3 fork to work with Quorum

    A fork of web3js to work with Quorum.

Faker.py python library

    Python library for generating fake data.

dcjs-rails library

    Library integrating dc.js with Rails.

scikit-learn - a machine learning library

    Contributor to scikit-learn, a machine learning library.

Digit recognizer

    Ranked 31/1008 in data science competition.

Titanic

    Ranked 21/2256 in data science competition.

Zombie Run

    Developed and released an android game.

Education

  • Bachelor of engineering - Mechanical engineering

    Visvesvaraya Technological University (2011)