Join Algorand at HackMIT and collaborate with hackers from around the world. Build your decentralized application on Algorand's blockchain with our Java, JavaScript (node.js and browser), Go, and Python SDKs at HackMIT. We invite you to join our API workshop and API challenge at Hack MIT for an opportunity to build on Algorand's platform and earn unique prizes.
Naveed Ihsanullah, Algorand's Head of Engineering Research, will give a tech talk on Algorand's at HackMIT
Prizes for our API Challenge includes
First Place: $1000 + Codrone
Second Place: Raspberry Pi 4 4GB w/ case + Matrix Creator
Third Place: Thule 32L Backpack + Gotenna
Fourth Place: Gotenna x 2
Fifth Place: $200 Amazon Gift Card
Sixth Place: Ledger Nano
For more details please visit Algorand.org/hack
Passionate about digital assets, decentralized computing, consensus networks, and applications. The brain is a computer. Let’s build worlds.
Naveed is a senior engineering leader and technologist fascinated by distributed systems and performance. Most recently of Mozilla, Naveed was instrumental in designing and leading the Quantum Flow program that focused 400 engineers to double Firefox’s performance in just one year. Naveed also lead the adoption of new technologies across all browsers to close the performance gap with native applications. These technologies include WebAssembly, SIMD.js, Shared Array Buffer and the still experimental Binary AST for JS (BinJS). Naveed is also previously of Bit9 (now Carbon Black) where he served as Principal Engineer of an enterprise application whitelisting product and then took over the Global Software Repository, a massive cloud-based application reputation system. Passionate about improving how enterprises use technology Naveed has also consulted on large organizational level projects for Fortune 500 companies including Boeing Jeppesen.
