Packt Publishing - Building Blockchain Projects

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First published: April 2017

Production reference: 1240417

ISBN 978-1-78712-214-7

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Narayan Prusty is a full-stack developer, with five years of experience in the field. He specializes in Blockchain and JavaScript. His commitment has led him to build scalable products for startups, the government, and enterprises across India, Singapore, USA, and UAE.

At present, Ethereum, Bitcoin, Hyperledger, IPFS, Ripple, and so on are some of the things he uses on a regular basis to build decentralized applications. Currently, he is a full-time Blockchain SME (Subject-Matter Expert) at Emirates National Bank of Dubai.

He has already written two books on JavaScript titled Learning ECMAScript 6 and Modern JavaScript Applications. Both these books were reviewed and published by Packt.

He starts working on something immediately if he feels its exciting and solves real work problems. He built an MP3 search engine at the age of 18, and since then, he has built various other applications, which are used by people around the globe. His ability to to build scalable applications from top to bottom is what makes him special.

Currently, he is on a mission to make things easier, faster, and cheaper using the blockchain technology. Also, he is looking at possibilities to prevent corruptions, fraud, and to bring transparency to the world using blockchain technology.
You can learn more from him from his blog http://qnimate.com and you can reach him out at LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/narayanprusty/.

Imran Bashir has an M.Sc. degree in Information Security from Royal Holloway, University of London, and has a background in software development, solution architecture, infrastructure management, and IT service management. He is also a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the British Computer Society (BCS). Imran has sixteen years of experience in public and financial sector. He had worked on large-scale IT projects for the public sector before moving to the financial services industry. Since then, he worked in various technical roles for different financial companies in Europes financial capital, London. He is currently working for an investment bank in London as Vice President in the technology department.

Daniel Kraft has studied mathematics and physics and holds a PhD degree in applied mathematics from the University of Graz in Austria. He has been involved in development with cryptocurrencies since 2013, has been the lead developer and chief scientist for both Namecoin and Huntercoin since 2014, and has published two research papers about cryptocurrency in peer-reviewed journals. He works as a software engineer and is a cofounder of Crypto Realities Ltd, a start-up that works on building decentralized multiplayer game worlds with blockchain technology.

Gaurang Torvekar has a master's degree in Information Systems from Singapore Management University. He is the cofounder and CTO of Attores, a Smart Contracts as a Service company, based in Singapore. He has extensive experience in Ethereum and Hyperledger application development. He has been a speaker at several blockchain conferences, conducted many hands on blockchain courses in Polytechnics in Singapore, and is also a Blockchain mentor at Angelhack.

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