About

Shivam Sharma is a highly skilled Blockchain Engineer at Polygon Labs (previously Matic Network), with a passion for solving complex technological challenges using the latest technologies. His expertise lies in the upcoming technology of Blockchain, and he has extensive experience in building smart contracts and understanding Defi and Stablecoins. Shivam has a Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Science from VIT University, which is ranked among the top 12 engineering colleges in India as per 2021 rankings. During his time at university, he focused not only on theory but also on practical applications. For example, he helped TVS Motors, a top Indian bike manufacturer, to organise and display defects in manufactured bikes in advance through an automated application that was designed to flash the warning signals along with photographs on large screens. This helped the firm eliminate manual intervention through a team of workers that would have to physically check each bike on the production line. In addition, Shivam headed the android club at university, enabling 60+ students to learn about the fundamentals of building android applications, managing coursework, teaching, and grading for this course. He also organised 2 hackathons and gained extensive experience in senior stakeholder management, student community management, and teamwork during this process. Shivam has worked as a Full-Stack Blockchain Engineer at Trakinvest, where he gained expertise in writing smart contracts on the ethereum blockchain using solidity and understanding ERC20 standards. He also has hands-on experience using truffle, metamask, remix, web3.js/ether.js, and an understanding of flash loans, Stablecoins, and decentralized exchanges. He has a deep understanding of ACL using JWT Tokens with Auth0 and Cognito and has built REST APIs, Middleware, CRON Jobs using NodeJS, and worked on databases such as MongoDB. He has also worked on Cloud technologies such as AWS S3, Deploying EC2 machines, Deploying containers using ECS & load balancer and set up API Gateway for throttling/metering/authorization. He has experience in building responsive designs using ReactJS, reusable components, state management using Redux, and integrating backend APIs to ReactJS or any 3rd party ReactJS module. He has experience in deployment using Jenkins, Jenkins Agents, Containerization using Docker Swarm, and creating a cluster of nodes. Shivam has a strong understanding of technical architecture and has worked on microservices architecture and messaging queues such as AMQP/MQTT/RabbitMQ. Overall, Shivam has 2