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From YouTube: Improving Blockchain Developer Experience | San Francisco, CA

Description

An exploration of Developer Experience (DevX).

We know there are many challenges around User Experience (UX) for end-users who are trying to use decentralized applications but what about the developers who build those applications? Their experience is often under-appreciated.


In this meetup, we dug deeper into what developer experience (DevX) really means, the state of it on today's platforms and how we can improve it in the future. We surveyed the landscape and tore down a couple of existing platforms.

Following the talk by Erik Trautman, our Head of Operations, we moved to a panel discussion with developers of apps on multiple different platforms about the pros and cons of development on each platform.

About the Speaker and Host:

Erik Trautman leads operations at NEAR Protocol, which is a scalable mobile-first blockchain. He has a long history in technical education: he started in market analysis on Wall Street in 2007, created the popular Odin Project in 2012 and ran Viking Education as its CEO until its acquisition in 2017.



Panelists:

1) Viktor Radchenko, Founder of Trust Wallet (Acquired by Binance).

2) Amhed Herrera is a Software Engineer from the Dominican Republic, where he founded two startups before moving to the US. He's been working as a full-stack software engineer since 2010, and on smart contracts and dApps since 2018. Recently joined the Harbor.com team where they're working on tokenizing securities on the blockchain.

3) Jehan Tremback is CEO of Althea (althea.org), working on a system that makes it easy for communities to set up networks which are faster and cheaper than the existing ISP monopolies, by enabling routers to pay each other for bandwidth, using cryptocurrency. He has years of experience in the Ethereum ecosystem and will be speaking about the ins and outs of building Dapps such as payment channels, voting systems, and DAOs.

4) Chris Li is the founder of Forge Labs, a decentralized blockchain accelerator headquartered in San Francisco. He recently led the team to build a game Dapp on EOS and became No.8 in daily DAU. Before, he was director of engineering at Bodhi Prediction Market, in charge of smart contract and backend development. Before blockchain, he was a serial entrepreneur and senior engineer at Microsoft, where he worked on Exchange, a complex distributed system for 4 years.



**About the Blockchain Onramp Series**

Blockchain Onramp is a series of events covering the full spectrum of knowledge necessary to operate effectively within the blockchain ecosystem as a designer, developer or product person. After participating in these events, you should be able to take your functional expertise in any of these areas and apply them to blockchain projects.

We are doing this to provide a key -- and currently missing -- plain-English onramp for people of all functional experience who are interested in building real businesses on this new technology.

The format of each event may differ slightly, but they will be a combination of expert talks and discussions with industry practitioners.

The rough Blockchain Onramp Series roadmap is:

+ Product Series: Ecosystem, DApps, and Strategy
+ Design Series: Onboarding UX, Best Practices
+ Development Series: Developer stack, Building on TestNets, Security, Best Practices
+ Startup Series: Marketing, Business Models, and Fundraising




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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/near-protocol/
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