Ankit Raj
Blockchain | Open Finance | Distributed System

ANKIT RAJ
Hello!
I am consulting early-stage startups around digitalization and decentralization for fintech, identity and edutech industry. I help startups in building tech and designing growth strategy.
Previously, I had co-founded two startups, one in fintech - Neo Banking (Bitberri) and another on edutech (Blockvidhya). During the startup journey, I was also the part of two incubators Entrepreneur First (Singapore) & IIT MANDI catalyst (India).
I had worked as a programmer at Red Hat -- building storage software of several petabytes ( 1000 TB ), BigChainDB -- building protocol layer for data sharing and been grantee from Ethereum Foundation to work on Solidity language.
When I am free, I prefer to blog on decentralization, Open Baning, and DeFi space.
Experience
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Founder in Residence, Entrepreneur First
Jan,2019-May,2019Exclusively Fintech: Blockchain for fraud | factoring | Open Banking. EF is a early stage talent investment firm.
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Software developer, BigchainDB
Dec,2018-Jan-2019Building Ocean Protocol layer 1 for the data sharing platform. Ocean Protocol is data sharing platform.
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Co-Founder, Blockvidhya
Mar,2018-Dec2018Wearing multiple hats. Writing first line of code to talking customers. Blockvidhya was supported by HST, IIT Mandi incubation center. It also got into YC Startup School.
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Ethreum Foundation, Grantee - REMOTE
Jan-Sept,2018Worked as Research grantee the on development of Solidity and go-ethereum. Completion of grant period he is continuing his voluntarily contribution.
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Associate Software Developer, Red Hat - Bangalore
July,2016-Sept,2017I was working on the DHT module of GlusterFS. GlusterFS is Distributed File System which manages data's in terms of terabytes system project. Also, worked on the core utils module and enhanced the performance.
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Ruby on Rails dev, Ajatus Software - Bhubaneshwar
Feb-Apr 2016Full stack dev on Ruby on Rails.
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Student developer, Google Summer of Code - Remote
Feb-July 2015Worked on RPC protocol, ruby binding for cap'n proto.
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Marketing person, Kumonit - Bhubaneshwar
2014Worked for startup started by college freinds. There I was the point of initial contact for customers.