GSoC 2018 Journey with SCoRe Lab — EPI 1

I had a big dream of my programming life to participate for GSoC. I have heard about GSoC with my first year from my seniors. Finally, my dream became true this time thanks to SCoRe Lab. In last week of the April (23rd) 2018, I have got an email mentioned that I have selected for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2018 student for SCoRe Lab organization. I’m very excited to select as a participant in GSoC 2018.

I applied for ChainKeeper project in SCoRe Lab. I’m the first member who going to contribute for this project. ChainKeeper is a web application to explore and analyze blockchain data for any users. Actually this is the front end of BlockSci which developed by Harry Kalodner et al. at Princeton University. We can discuss about the project and what are my approaches in development phase in next blog posts :)

I’m a very interesting person for the blockchain domain. I’m still a 4th year undergraduate at UCSC. Due to interesting to this domain I selected my final year research also in this field. I have some sort of knowledge about how the blockchain works, how the transactions, inputs and outputs related with blocks in Bitcoin etc.

After getting selected for the project, I had a discussion with the organization mentors regarding the project and further development tasks of the project. Developing is still waiting and I’m still getting familiar with React JS, C++ and Python Flask for do the project in quick (I hope so :P). I hope this might be a great opportunity for me to learn many new things such as techs, methodologies, people and hoping to give my full commitment towards the success of this project.