- Scaling the existing architecture of the organisation to almost 20x of the user load.
- Transforming applications from web2 to web3
- Architecting CeDeFi applications which are a mix of centralised and decentralised technologies
- Mentoring team about the multiple blockchains
- Exploring upcoming layer 1 & layer 2 solutions

I have been working on multiple blockchain and digital assets related projects during the course of my work at Seracle. It includes trading exchanges - Market Trade, Limit, Stop limit,  Peer to peer trading, Metal trading (digital assets vs metal), ICOs, Coin listings, Escrow systems, Intelligent trading bots (Market making), Digital assets mining applications, Digital assets based multi node complex referral programs etc. 

During the period, other domains which I have worked on includes medical patient monitoring application, ecommerce marketplaces, debit cards.

You can divide my day as follows:

Roughly 60% in 
1. Requirements understanding from PMs and BAs
2. Architecture designing
3. Technically guiding the team
4. Preparing technical documentations
5. Code reviews of other team members
6. Preparing feedbacks for other developers on a regular basis and sharing the same with senior management for appraisals
7. Interviews and technical hiring

The other 40% in 
1. Individually cont

I had been working on multiple projects during the course of my work. It included mostly blockchain and digital assets related projects like exchanges,  peer to peer trading, trading bots (market making), digital assets mining, digital assets based referral programs etc. 

Other domains which I had worked on included medical patient monitoring application, ecommerce marketplaces, debit cards.

Working as a Tech Lead, you can divide my day Roughly 25% in 
1. Requirements understanding
2. Architecture designing
3. Technically guiding to the team

The other 75% in 
1. Individually contributing to the projects. I'm habitual of very frequent project switching as per the demand and priority of the project.

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I work as an individual contributor for the projects and also help my team if they are facing any technical challenges.

Some of the projects which I take care are :

1. Utah Gas : It is a Oil and Energy data driven solutions which has all the real time information for wells in the state Utah.
2. SG Rail Track : It is live train tracking application for frac chemicals which are used while drilling oil from the land. It was used to reduce the huge penalty losses occured by Saint Gobain due to train delays.
3. Well Worth it : It is a Oil and Energy data driven solutions which has all the real time information for wells owned by the glass manufacturing giant Saint Gobain. It is a solution customized for their needs.

The application I was working on was an oil and gas related portal, which was used to give information about where to drill, how much is the oil density, government permissions etc. I was mostly assigned the backend related works.

1. Writing data migration scripts in Node.js for migrating GBs of JSON files first to MongoDb and then to ElasticSearch (for clustered data usage, hosted on AWS EC instance). Data needs to validated for abnormal geographical terminologies, invalid dates, out of range values. The data was so huge, code used to run for close to 8-9 hours on an intel i7 machine for a single JSON file. I was given 7-8 files all with different JSON schema.
2. Writing scripts in Node.js for MongoDB Oplogs for database maintenance and automatic updation to elastic server during CURL commands on database.
3. Doing analytics using nvD3.js for making comparisons with current vs previous years - months values.
4. Making payment gateway using Stripe.js in Node.js for the application. En

Contrary to my internship, here mostly i was assigned frontend related tasks, that was because the team used to outsource the UI devlopment and nobody had any idea about frontend technologies like jQuery, Angular, Bootstarp, Semantic.

I can’t disclose most of the project details as they were banking softwares. A brief info on the project which i have worked is as follows :

1. NRV : A application which used to handle the appraisal and analytics for the customers. Front end was outsourced. Developed in a team of 3 people. Integrated Mainframes and Oracle database with Java Spring backend with Angular and HTML as UI layer.
2. Concordia : Used to handle frauds done over credit and debit cards. Developed for the purpose of automating and aggregating the data from 4 different banking platforms. A desktop based application written entirely in VB.NET.
3. Elinq : Used for connecting phone dialer with other systems. Desktop app (more of a Background service) written in VB.NET.
During my stay t

I was working on a food delivery application from the scratch. A popular United States food website was taken as reference. Developement was done in Meteor.js.

Akshay Soam

CTO Seracle | Web3 infrastructure