Shankar Warang

Before securing the 8 years of experience in web3, I was an Electrical Engineering student and was volunteering the open source Android Custom ROM development. In my 4 years of engineering, I was able to secure a VU2 HAM radio license and got into Satellite Ground Station as a researcher, made it to the finalist teams of the Smart India Hackathon 2019 (software edition), won the Smart India Hackathon 2020 (hardware edition), best paper award (3rd rank) in IEEE ICCDW - Quo Vadis conference and Intel Edge AI scholarship.
I started my crypto journey back in 2017 and worked on 5 projects under different semi-technical roles until I came across Edgeware. Edgeware is a fairly distributed governance experiment turned into a self-sustaining ecosystem without any kind of VC backing. Edgeware introduced the 'Lockdrop' mechanism to the whole crypto space to follow and got participation from big names in the industry like Binance, Coinbase Ventures, Aragon DAO, Framework Ventures, etc. VCs/teams/DAOs/individuals.
Edgeware not only incubates projects but also incubates people! I participated in Edgeware's lockdrop event and later also became the first treasury-funded contributor back then in 2020. I started my Edgeverse contribution journey as a Community Manager and Edgeware community incubated as well as accelerated my career so far.
In the last two years, I co-founded Edgetributor SubDAO along with 5 other battle-tested contributors who voluntarily contributed to Edgeware at the time when the contributions were no more incentivised by the community. Edgetributor SubDAO is one of the Polkadot-exclusive contributing team who focuses on 3 major spectrums of building, curating and educating. We represented Polkadot in the ETHIndia 2024, hosted 3 editions of beloved Polkadot India Workshops Series in India's top engineering colleges, collaborated with Pala Labs for the Dr. Gavin Wood's JAM Tour in Mumbai and Hongkong.
Meanwhile, I never stopped learning, participating in several hackathons, and making new connections in the whole space. Thus happy to expand my contribution journey through hackathons on Devfolio!