I am Nikolaos Kontakis, starting in the beginning of 2021 as a Parity employee until today, I work on Polkadot related projects, mainly on Substrate-Connect and Zombienet. In addition to my professional commitments, I have dedicated my free time to crafting small applications (e.g. polkadot-notify.me MVP which is currently being refactored and rebuild) and contributing to open-source initiatives. I am a member of @polkadot{.js}, Polkadot Blockchain Academy. Especially in PolkadotJS, I've made contributions to Polkadot-js apps and API, particularly in the context of the integration with substrate-connect and light clients; I am a Polkadot Blockchain Academy Alumni from Cohort #2 (Buenos Aires), where I contributed to but also supported (with several integrations and code-improvements) the presentation project of the PBA. My commitment to knowledge sharing led me to deliver presentations on the topics of light clients and substrate-connect, engaging with Cohorts #2 in Buenos Aires and #3 in Berkeley. I currently continue supporting Polkadot Blockchain Academy efforts with tech support and participation in the steps of admissions;
Am one of the top contributors of Substrate-connect, and Zombienet.
- Substrate, Polkadot and Cumulus: Rename CLI and keep block flags;
- Substrate: Rename node-runtime to node-kitchensink-runtime;
- Integrate Substrate Connect with polkadotJS apps;
- Integrate Substrate Connect with Polkadot Staking Dashboard;
- earliest PRs on PolkadotJS Apps [1], [2];
- Hosted a workshop on Sub0 2021 (Online) about Unstoppable Apps, Light Clients & Parachains with the Smoldot ads online application.
- Presented in @PolkadotNetwork Hackathon: North America Edition about "Build dApps with the Substrate Connect and light client".
- Done a Web3 Workshop about “Substrate Connect” online, at the IBC Continuum 2022-23.
- substrate-connect: PRs
- zombienet: PRs
- zombienet-sdk: PRs
- zombienet-vscode-extension: PRs
- polkadot-api: PRs
- polkadot-sdk: PRs
- polkadot: PRs
- cumulus: PRs
- npm_publish_automation: PRs
- metadata-portal: PRs
- parity-bridges-ui: PRs
- polkadot-cloud: PRs
- polkadot-scripts: PRs
- polkadot-staking-dashboard: PRs
- smoldot-ads: PRs
- substrate-website: PRs
- smoldot: PRs
- Polkadot-Blockchain-Academy/pba-content: PRs
- substrate-docs: PRs
- kianenigma/polkadot-release-inspector
- kianenigma/polkadot-basic-notification
- kianenigma/substrate-metadata-scanner
- shawntabrizi/polkadot-js-bundle
I apply for Dan 1 at your discretion.
- polkadot account:
15DCZocYEM2ThYCAj22QE4QENRvUNVrDtoLBVbCm5x4EQncr - polkadot forum: https://forum.polkadot.network/u/wirednkod/summary
- github: https://github.com/wirednkod