About

Hrishikesh Thakkar is a Full Stack Blockchain Engineer at Airstack.xyz with a passion for solving complex problems in computer science. He is always eager to learn new skills and explore the business aspect of each project he works on. Currently, he is working as a Software Engineer II at PayPal, where he is a part of the Negative Balance and Recovery team. He has developed and deployed Spring Batch Jobs that interact with various stakeholders using multithreading and developed ReactJS components for an internal tool. He has also conducted tech talks on Blockchain and DeFi. Prior to working at PayPal, Hrishikesh worked as a Software Engineer at Visa Business Solutions, where he focused primarily on Android app development for Visa EReceipts. He also developed APIs using JPA and Hibernate on SpringBoot and worked on developing dashboards and alerts on Splunk for application monitoring. He has also worked as a Software Developer Intern at RoundInfinity, where he worked on various social media platforms to analyze responses to a particular brand based on hashtags and comments, scoring the response, and generating an appropriate response based on the score in Java. He also developed an Alexa Skill to select a consumer action such as Appointments or Complaints and prompt the user for filling the particular fields (date, time, etc) retrieving them on Amazon EC2. Hrishikesh has a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka and a Diploma of Education in Software Development with Blockchain from the International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore. He also has a Middle-High School Diploma from Delhi Public School and an Elementary School degree from Parsons Elementary School Atlanta. Hrishikesh has a wide range of technical skills, including Blockchain, Software Engineering, DeFi, Solidity, Smart Contract, NFT, Java, Android, Spring, Spring Boot, AWS, Dapp, Mobile, Backend, Truffle, Javascript, MySQL, SQL, UI, Web3, Docker, Integration, Frontend, and ReactJS. With 3.20 years of relevant experience, Hrishikesh is an excellent problem solver who is always eager to learn and explore new domains.