Work update: Joining Akash
As my sweet tenure at Tendermint comes to an end, I’m excited to embark my new journey in Akash.
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What is Akash?
To all those who haven’t heard of Akash yet; you are missing out on the great company. Akash is a distributed peer-to-peer marketplace for cloud computing. Think of AWS or GCP on Blockchain, with distributed service centers. (Even you can provide computing resources and earn money)
What did I learn at Ignite?
Learning experience from Ignite (Formerly Tendermint):
1. Cosmos skills. (Overall coding skills)
2. Public speaking. (Workshops, seminars, etc)
3. Leadership skills. (Led multiple initiatives for eco-dev)
4. Team player. (Being a part of cross-team efforts like Product & Engineering, Marketing, and Business Development)
5. Discord knight. (Helped multiple developers begin their Cosmos journey)
6. Getting Featured. (Featured in multiple news outlets — http://linktr.ee/Aliasgar.Featured)
What will I do at Akash?
At Akash I will Lead Developer Relations initiatives.
Here is what I will do in a nutshell:
- Represent Akash at major and local Blockchain and cloud events
- Develop content that guides technical and community members
- Engage and increase the Akash user community, including developers, providers and validators
- Establish and own strategy and content for the Developer Knowledge Hub
- Create guides, examples, and tutorials to help onboard developers and community members
- Hold meetups and hackathons to drive and engage the ecosystem in partnership with Marketing
- Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Support stakeholders to give feedback and improve the onboarding experience
