Polkadot Blockchain Academy: Learn Web3 with Polkadot | Icebreaker

Polkadot Blockchain Academy: Learn Web3 with Polkadot | Icebreaker

Members

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Polkadot Blockchain Academy | Web3 | Education

Nikolaos Kontakis

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- "I build stuff" A very small and generic sentence that sums up my preferred approach to adding value: It entails providing comprehensive support throughout all phases of a product or project lifecycle, including but not limited to performing analysis, gathering specifications, prototyping, engaging in hands-on development, and offering supportive assistance to colleagues. https://www.github.com/wirednkod

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Marketing and brand building professional with over 15 years of hands-on marketing experience across the full marketing mix. Strong background in blockchain, iGaming, retail and financial sectors. - History of orchestrating integrated marketing strategies and marketing initiatives designed to increase revenue. - Experience in development of Marketing Automation including Decision Engine Automation. - Track record of delivering innovative projects, ranging from Automation of Marketing Processes to Machine Learning Based Promotional Activity. - Top of the class stakeholder management skills. Experienced in managing internal teams, agencies, suppliers, vendors and customer-facing sales staff to deliver business objectives. Sectors: Finance, Gambling, FMCG, Catering, Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Blockhain, E-Sports.

Mattia L.V. Bradascio

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Throughout my career I’ve had the privilege of working with a wide set of complex problems at the forefront of innovation, often in well known startups, but also in established institutions like the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund. I’ve consequently both learned and developed a strong research engineering skill set which I always seek to apply in creative ways, having tackled problems in the cloud native security realm, blockchain consensus protocols, systematic trading systems, confidential computing and ML infrastructure. Additionally, as a former Pervasive Parallelism CDT student at The University of Edinburgh School of Informatics and Edinburgh Performance Computer Centre (EPCC), I focused on formal modelling languages used to verify and simulate complex and adaptive, concurrent, and/or distributed systems (stochastic process algebras, invented by my supervisor). I also did a large amount of stochastic modeling prior to this as a researcher in risk modeling. Consequently I picked up an interest in using formalisms to synthesise real-world systems that are verifiable at design time. Furthermore, it made me appreciate the value of abstraction when tackling complex problems at large, and made me increasingly interested in AI as a consequence. At Oxford, I continued following this interest, albeit with a more applied focus, bringing my academic curiosity to a wide-set of problems related to software and systems security whilst pursuing extra-curricular research courses in AI safety and AI security accordingly.

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I have been recruiting in crypto since 2016, it is a truly amazing industry, some of the most powerful minds on the planet are dedicating themselves furthering the technology. My aim is to use my skills to do whatever I can to help the industry.

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Nuke is a Solutions Engineer and Developer Advocate in the field of advanced applied cryptography and verifiable computing specializing in Zero Knowledge Virtual Machines (zkVM) and Rust development. He is web3 community leader active in advocating, educating, and evangelizing distributed web technologies as the primary Steward of the Cryptorado Community. He helped launch the Polkadot Blockchain Academy and has been an Adjunct Professor for decentralized technologies at UCB and DU. He independently consults on distributed systems architecture, business applications, technical assessments, community management and events. Nuke is an avid mountaineer in his time away from the digital world.

Utkarsh Bhardwaj

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I work as a Software Consultant with Parity Technologies developing blockchain infrastructure in Rust. I am a proficient programmer in c++, Java, python, Javascript, Typescript having abundant experience through working in orgs like Amazon, Apple and Accenture. I also have a lot of experience in SQL, machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, front end web development and cloud technologies through projects, internships and other freelance work.

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Implementation Engineer (Professional Services team)