“I coached/ mentored Vishal between June and September 2019, in the early stages of the set up of the Northern Block Chain Group. He and co-founder Peter are passionate about bringing blockchain to the North and creating a network of people working in this field. Vishal is passionate about the technical applications of blockchain, and has a number of ideas of how this could be applied, especially in legal and accountancy. He appears to have good insight into these applications, and talks eloquently about the possibilities. ”
Vishal Soomaney Vijaykumar
London, England, United Kingdom
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I'm a problem-first founder and CTO, passionate about combining unique advances in…
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Last week, 20 incredible companies from Entrepreneurs First pitched some of the world's best investors in SF. Can you pick a favourite? Link to…
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Happy to see Cactus (YC S25) featured on the Google DeepMind Gemmaverse case study for Crane AI Labs. Problem 1: Cloud models are expensive for…
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Experience
Education
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University of York
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Activities and Societies:
- Computer Science Course representative for 2 years (2016-2018)
- Attained the York Achieving Excellence Bursary
- Runner up in the G-Research Coding Challenge where my team designed and implemented an algorithm to invest in a simulated stock market.
- Runner up in the Royal Hackaway MLH hackathon.
- 3rd place winner in the York Instruments 2017 Codeathon at the University of York.
- University of York Blockchain Society President (2018-2019)
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- Attained the York Achieving Excellence Bursary
- Runner up in the G-Research Coding Challenge where my team designed and implemented an algorithm to invest in a simulated stock market.
- Runner up in the Royal Hackaway MLH hackathon.
- 3rd place winner in the York Instruments 2017 Codeathon at the University of York.
- University of York Blockchain Society President (2018-2019)
- University of York Japanese Society Vice-president (2015-2017)
Licenses & Certifications
Projects
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VeridenKey - Blockchaingers Hackathon 2018
See projectCame 2nd in the Global Digital Identity track in the Blockchaingers Hackathon 2018, the world's largest Blockchain related hackathon. I participated as one of 2 main blockchain developers of the VeridenKey team.
The project involved interconnecting national e-IDs to form a single standardized digital ID that represents you in the digital space and give the user control of the data sharing and landscape. -
Smart Contract based tenancy agreement verifier
An Ethereum Smart Contract based system that securely stores your tenancy agreements and handles deposit disputes using an Augur style dispute settling mechanism.
The project came 2nd in the Royal Hackaway Major League Hacking hackathon. I was one of two members of the development team.
Was the lead backend developer as well as one of the two ethereum smart contract developers. Alongside this, I hosted the application using AWS and wrote a Javascript interface that interacted with…An Ethereum Smart Contract based system that securely stores your tenancy agreements and handles deposit disputes using an Augur style dispute settling mechanism.
The project came 2nd in the Royal Hackaway Major League Hacking hackathon. I was one of two members of the development team.
Was the lead backend developer as well as one of the two ethereum smart contract developers. Alongside this, I hosted the application using AWS and wrote a Javascript interface that interacted with the smart contract on the testnet.Other creatorsSee project -
Wildfire AWARE (Algorithmic Wildfire Analysis and Prediction)
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Founder of the team that developed a Wildfire predictor with WebWorldWind as a front facing UI. It can currently predict wildfires with a 74.8% accuracy using machine learning, specifically through the usage of a Support Vector Machine + data through Dark Sky and several other data sources. Team members Vishal Soomaney, Flinn Dolman and Peter Jupp. Achievements as part of this project so far include:
- Winners of the Microsoft Azure 2018 Competition
- Winners of the UN World Challenge…Founder of the team that developed a Wildfire predictor with WebWorldWind as a front facing UI. It can currently predict wildfires with a 74.8% accuracy using machine learning, specifically through the usage of a Support Vector Machine + data through Dark Sky and several other data sources. Team members Vishal Soomaney, Flinn Dolman and Peter Jupp. Achievements as part of this project so far include:
- Winners of the Microsoft Azure 2018 Competition
- Winners of the UN World Challenge 2018
- Invited to present our work at the ESA Phi Conference in Rome 2018.
-All expenses paid trip to Helsinki, Finland as part of the NASA Europa Challenge Finals to engage in mentorship and to present our project at the Nokia executive experience center.
- 1st Place (£2500) in the Smart Cities (SMARTIES) Entrepreneurship award competition funded by Research Councils UK.
-Official endorsement from Green Peace Russia.Other creatorsSee project -
Ethereum2IPFS Content Distribution Service
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Collaborated with the London Blockchain Labs to co-develop a project that provides secure, decentralised content distribution by using the Ethereum network to maintain a database of transactions and references to files stored using IPFS. This was built as a Proof Of Concept Blockchain project for Deloitte.
Honors & Awards
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YUSU Society Development STAR Award Winner and Best New Society Nominee
York University Student Union
Awarded the Development STAR Award for leading one of the best developed societies of the 2018-2019 academic year. My society was also nominated for being the best new society.
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York Technology Conference Entrepeneurship Competition Winner
York Technology Conference
Winner of the largest competition at the York Technology Conference with a cash prize of £500. My project involved an innovative application of Blockchain technology to reduce costs and administrative issues involving airports and passenger disruptions.
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Winner of the Microsoft Azure Competition 2018
Microsoft
Led the Backend development as well as the team's overall entry for the Microsoft Azure 2018 Competition in Finland.
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Winner of the UN World Challenge 2018
UN, ESA and NASA
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York Award Gold
University of York
One of the only 4% of University of York students to receive the York Award Gold.
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York Achieving Excellence Award
University of York
One of only 73 students from the University of York to be awarded the York Achieving Excellence Award (now renamed to York Futures Award) in 2016. This included a cash prize of £2,100.
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York Award
University of York
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Business Innovation For Digital Technology Finalist
University of York
Completed the “Business Innovation For Digital Technology” scheme hosted by the Royal Academy of Engineering. My team earned a commendation from both the Bank of Santander and the Royal Academy of Engineering during the proceeding competition.
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York Project Management Scheme
University of York
Only Computer Scientist to successfully complete the York Project Management Scheme in the 2015-2016 academic year.
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York Entrepeneurship Scheme Finalist
University of York
Only Computer Scientist to complete the York Entrepreneurship Scheme in this academic year. Was also a finalist in the business idea pitching competition at the end of the scheme.
Languages
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English
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Spanish
Native or bilingual proficiency
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Hindi
Full professional proficiency
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