Ankit Raj

Ankit Raj has a diverse work experience in the field of technology and blockchain. Ankit is currently serving as the Chief Technology Officer at Velvet.Capital since May 2022. Prior to this, Ankit worked as a Product Lead at Pandora Protocol from January 2021 to June 2022. Ankit also gained experience as a Blockchain | DevOps Consultant at ClickAcademy Asia from June 2020 to January 2021. Ankit co-founded BitBerri, a Neo bank for the APAC region, where they focused on revolutionizing accounting and payments for SMEs from July 2019 to May 2020. Before that, they held the position of Founder in Residence at Entrepreneur First from January 2019 to June 2019. Ankit worked as a Software Developer at BigchainDB from December 2018 to January 2019 and also co-founded BlockVidhya, which was supported by HST, IIT Mandi incubation center, from March 2018 to December 2018. Ankit contributed as a Blockchain Consultant as a self-employed individual from November 2017 to November 2018, working on projects related to E-wasm, Zero Knowledge Proof, and web3 technologies. Ankit has also been involved with Ethereum as a Research Grantee from January 2018 to September 2018, working on the core development of Solidity and go-ethereum. Additionally, they worked as a Blockchain Developer at COSS (previously known as Lalaworld.io) from February 2018 to July 2018, where they built payment infrastructure for fiat-crypto gateway and a decentralized lending dapp. Ankit's work experience highlights their expertise in various aspects of technology and blockchain development.

Ankit Raj's education history is as follows:

In 2018, Ankit Raj attended Startup School Online for an unspecified period of time. Ankit did not obtain a degree during this time.

Ankit Raj completed their Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) degree from Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Odisha. The exact start and end dates are not provided.

In terms of additional certifications, Ankit Raj obtained the Bloomberg Essentials certification from Corporate Finance Institute® (CFI) in April 2021. In March 2020, they obtained the Corda Certified Developer certification from R3. Ankit Raj also completed a course titled "How to Build Digital Products" from Product School in 2020, although the specific month is not mentioned.

Furthermore, Ankit Raj was a finalist for the "Investor Drive" at e-cell IIT-Bhubaneshwar, awarded by the Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar in 2016. Lastly, Ankit Raj obtained a C++ certification from NIIT Limited, although the specific details such as the month and year are not provided.