Afraz Syed

OctaCore is a small B2B start-up that focuses on providing services that help interact with various blockchains to users that want to develop their own Dapps.

• Planned and developed interfaces that simplified overall management and offered ease of use.
• Designed and Developed most of the backend that interacts with blockchain using the goethereumbook .
• Wrote the code for a restful API server with inbuilt services for caching, logging , rate limiting, Authorization, and Authentication.
• Improved the efficiency of services like finding user assets on any blockchain by 20% and reduces gas fee used by 35%.
• Collaborated with project manager in the hiring process to shortlist candidates based on our requirements.
• Designed and developed no code script to deploy multi chain contracts with just a button.
• Colloborated with other developers to design our own blockchain using the Cosmos SDK

CoinCave is a crypto marketplace developed in India. It was the first crypto platform that gave users the flexibility to complete UPI transactions (the most commonly used online payment method in India) on the go by trading in cryptocurrency.

• Collaborated with project managers to select ambitious, but realistic coding milestones on pre-release software project development.
• Worked with other developers to design a user-friendly UI and helped in the development of the Flutter App.
• Analyzed proposed technical solutions based on customer requirements.
• Developed the module that ran the order-book of the trading engine.
• Developed a trading bot to populate the order-book using orders from other marketplaces.(Market Making Trading Strategy)
• Managed a team of 3 developers during the deployment phase to maintain smooth continuous integration of all the services.

TomTom is a multinational developer and creator of location technology and consumer electronics.

• Learned about the SDLC.
• Migrated multiple SQL databases stored on different servers to a single unified NoSQL database thereby improving read/write speed.
• Developed Restful API servers to interact with the new database .
• Documented all API endpoints to help other developers get work done faster.
• Worked with data scientist lead to optimize the traffic prediction model.
• Wrote testing and benchmarking codes for various projects.

• Learned software engineering process improvements and best practices.
• Developed machine learning project using python programming language.
• Optimized ML mode efficiency by 2.1%.
• Supported development and QA staff in the development of new products.
• Wrote clear, clean code for various projects.