Hi I'm Killian,
I'm a highly motivated software engineer from the UK, based in America, pursuing my passion of emerging technologies and how they relate to financial systems and democratising financial access regardless of geographical or political situations.
This will be my first time attending EthDenver, and as such I'm looking to make the most of the opportunities to be had at the event, including the CampBUIDL workshop which I was accepted to, to learn more about writing smart contracts and integrating web3 libraries into my full stack development.
Just this week I started my first technical writing blog, where the topic of my first article takes the reader through writing a fully functional multisig smart contract wallet using Solidity. This exercise is particularly helpful to me as it allows me to not only think deeply about the code I am writing, but also to improve my technical communication skills, which I think are critical when working with team members. This same contract was my first exploration of deploying and interacting with a live contract of which I wrote myself. Using Remix to deploy the contract to a public testnet (Sepolio) was a personal paradigm shift in the way I think about smart contracts and the Ethereum network. The next step in this exercise (which I will be working on between now and EthDenver) will be to build a fullstack app around the contract using Reactjs and a web3 library such as Web3.js or Ethers.js. This app will handle deploying new instances of the contract, connecting web3 wallets and interacting with the contract in a user friendly way.
Prior to this, I had experience interacting with blockchains, web3 libraries and APIs, in an Ethereum block explorer application I developed from scratch. This app was build around Django and web3py, using Etherscan's API to pull live blockchain data such as gas prices, transaction information and wallet balances. This exercise helped me learn the foundations of interacting with the blockchain and the nuances around data feeds, including the use of Oracles such as Chainlink and how the ecosystem revolves around incentivising high quality data.
My goals for EthDenver, inlcuding CampBUIDL and hopefully being involved in the hackathon, is to make the most of the wonderful resources provided to grow my skills, knowledge and perspective around web3 development. With my ultimate objective being to shift my career into the web3 industry, particularly around improving Ethereum's user accessibility and redefining public sentiment towards web3 by building positive-sum applications that provide public goods.
Thank you for the opportunity, and I hope to hear back from you!