April Update 🌓

Another great month — the team have been busy building the product, growing the team and throwing some great events — here’s what happened…

Events.

When we’re not in the office working on the product and building our brand, we’re out and about hosting and speaking at events and April was no different… Find out more about the events we spoke at and what we’ve got in the pipeline.

Blockchain and the distributed workforce.

Over 100 senior HR professionals and executives from companies like Santander and HP attended the event last month hosted in RocketSpace. Founder of Zinc, Luke Shipley gave a great presentation on the mission behind Zinc why Blockchain will change the future of work. Find out more about the event and how Blockchain applies to HR.

Applying Blockchain outside of finance.

We ran a successful Blockchain meetup in which George from the team presented his donations dApp (http://rblock.co/donate.html) which helps raise money for Code To Inspire, a nonprofit committed to teaching female students in Afghanistan how to code. We welcomed the CEO from Medichain, a medical big-data platform and Michael Smolenski — CEO of Lightstreams networks, Blockchain engineer at MotionWerk and author of OMOS white paper.

Upcoming.

Serverless APIs with NodeJS.

We are hosting another event tonight — if you’re in London come and say hello! The event will look into the journey of implementing Serverless APIs with NodeJS. We will have 2 speakers presenting some real-life implementations; Peter van Holland, CTO at Ruuby will be presenting “All aboard the Serverless Express” and Fabio Ponciroli, Developer at 11FS will be presenting “My Serverless journey so far”.

Ali is confirmed to speak at Blockercon.

Our very own Ali Azam is speaking at Blockercon next month. Blockercon, the global Blockchain Conference is in Bristol on the 7 June 2018. Meet blockchain, Crypto, DLT, Smart Contracts investors, developers & more.

Growth.

Three new members joined the Zinc dream team in April — here’s everything you need to know.

Meet Josh.

We are thrilled to welcome Josh Collie, Zinc’s Lead Designer. Josh has a wide- range of technical experience from working for large technology giants such as YouTube & Google to agile startups like Moneybox. Having also worked across the globe from San Francisco to Seoul. Find out more in his Q&A here.

Meet Matthew.

Cue Applause… 👏 Matthew is our new Lead Developer. Matthew is a well respected developer in the Open Source community; authoring popular libraries such as Parallax.js, Flat Surface Shader, Meteor Fixtures, Vue Fela and ESLint Index; contributing to other prevalent projects including Inferno, Fela, Styletron, Rambda, ESLint, Redbox React and FuseBox. As a result of his OS work and contributions, Matthew ranks among the top 5 Javascript Developers in the UK on GitHub. He’s held leadership positions for agencies such as Fantasy Interactive, Native, B-Reel, Stinkdigital and Rehabstudio; delivering projects for the likes of Google that are used by millions of people.

Meet Dimitar.

We are very excited to welcome Dimitar Popov to Zinc, our new Software Engineer. Dimitar has an impressive technical background, graduating with a BA Hons in Computer Science at Cambridge. He has over 3 years experience developing enterprise software solutions working as the Browser Security Team Lead Engineer at Bromium, an advanced malware protection service providing virtualization-based security for enterprises. Take a peak at his Q&A here.