joshuapickering

• Developed an advanced Zero-Knowledge Succinct Non-Interactive Argument of Knowledge(zk-SNARKs) based DEX platform with ZoKrates on Ethereum. • Led the subnet development of Comtensor using Substrate and creating an incentive mechanism that increased staknig by 18.33%. • Built a Node Staking Dapp using Anchor optimizing time complexity to and implementing scalable reward distribution. • Deployed a secure NFT marketplace on Solana, enhancing digital asset trading and user experience. • Improved gas savings from token transfers by 85% using Balancer Labs Protocol-inspired encoding design.

• Developed DEX platform on Ethereum network while solving liquidity challenges using Uniswap SDK and providing 37.56% of Annual percentage yield. • Implemented a secure, scalable Ethereum bridge using zk-SNARKs, leveraging technologies such as Solidity, Circom, and SnarkJS to enable efficient crosschain asset transfers while minimizing gas costs and ensuring high security standards. • Conceptualized software licenses on the blockchain to discourage piracy by enabling a secondary peer-topeer marketplace, which allowed 8.6k developers to accept cryptocurrencies. • Built ICO project with smart contract development using OpenZepplin and token sale mechanics using ZepplinOS and finally increased investorsto 4700. • Integrated contract using web3.js in TypeScript ensuring ABI was up-to-date and matched the ABI of the deployed smart contract using "TypeChain".

• Developed a synchronization trigger that channels data from PostgreSQL to Elasticsearch, increases fulltext search speed by almost 90%, and makes a list of suggestions available for website search needs. • Refactored the existing code to improve the performance of a heavy Angular front end by talking to a Node.js and Express.js via REST API. • Developed SaaS app that automates B2B customer onboarding and KYC process. • Used AWS Serverless architecture (AWS Gateway & AWS Lamba) for the backend API development and built the Lambda functions using Python & Node. • Ensured the smooth performance by building the platform as event driven with the help of AWS SNS and SQS. • Built the e-commerce platform frontend using React & MaterialUI & &GraphQL & Axios.