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Aku Alatao

Software Engineer | Blockchain | C++ | RUST | Go | DB

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About Me

Aku is a highly-skilled, self-motivated and task-driven professional with 10 years of experiences in Desktop and Web software development and 4 years of experiences in blockchain development in the sphere of Ethereum, Solana, Cosmos, Polkadot, Aptos and Sui blockchains. Aku was born in Ottawa and studied software technologies in HK, China and came to Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He maintains good relationships with team members and leads the team atmosphere in a global team of diverse cultures. (be flexible with work time zone) He is always sensitive to new technologies and is not afraid to learn new technology, ignoring all experiences for better solutions.

Experience

Meeiro Finance

Rust/Move Engineer

• Participated in developing shear blockchain - a parathread in polkadot ecosystem.
• Developed NFT pallets and custom token pallets using substrate frame.
• Wrote swap and staking smart contract using ink! wasm smart contract system.
• Migrated crypto yield-farming contract written with pure Rust into using Solana Anchor framework and extended to dual-yield and triple-yield farming strategy.
• Developed move smart contracts of IDO launchpad and coin staking and built a meeapt swap by using hippo aggregator swap in aptos ecosystem.
• Co-worked with frontend/backend engineers in the agile environment.
• Raised $400,000 in first IDO, ensuring high security and excellent quality of the MVP.
• Took part in Sui Move Challenges which was held during Sui Event in Vietnam.
• Raised $200,000 in first IDO and $100,000 in NFT sale after developing solana rust program for IDO launchpad and NFT staking platform.
• Accelerated the development schedule in order to fulfill the promised timeline for an IDO launchpad that was delayed by a previous developer who has fired after this work.
• Research about building company's own chain using Cosmos SDK on cosmos ecosystem and using Polkadot PDK as a parachain.

Automated Systems Ltd

C++, C# Developer

• Built 30+ .Net Services and developed Winforms admin pages to manage 7M Amazon Products automatically for purchasing and sales and resulted in over $155k in annual savings.
• Designed and developed the Chinese TianShen notation feature in 3+ Forte projects and grew revenue by 200% in first 11 months (representing 40% of company revenue).
• Improved efficiency on 5+ Forte sub projects speeding up project completion by 20%.
• Increased client satisfaction from 84% to 97% in 2016 and awarded employee of the Month twice for performing great work.
• Troubleshot and fixed any threads and bugs, communicated with clients to provide knowledge, expertise, and support, ensuring that their requirements were fully met.
• Completed analysis, design and testing phases of software development life cycle.
• Researched and integrated design strategies, product specifications, development schedules and user expectations into product capabilities.

FunctionEight

Passionate C++/MFC Intern, Junior developer

• Built 5 customer-facing small windows applications which increased sales by 55%.
• Redesigned and developed Mail delivery and 2d-architecture design project and added new features to meet customer’s needs.
• Troubleshot and resolved performance issues for mysql and sql server databases and software.
• Analyzed, evaluated and developed new web and database applications.

Education

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Aprl 2009 - March 2013

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Receive a number of awards and recognitions related to an academic performance and research accomplishments.
Win in programming contests, hackathons and robotics competitions, received a couple of competition awards.

Projects

Staking DApp

Development for token staking on several chains such as Solana, EVM, BSC, Polygon, etc.
Skills and deliverables: Blockchain, Ethereum, Smart Contract, Solidity, Web3, React, NFT

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Solana Defi

Development for Decentralized Financial System on Solana chain
Skills and deliverables: Solana, DeFi, Golang, Blockchain, Rust, React, Tailwind CSS, Material UI, Smart Contract

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Token Staking & Miner on Solana

Development for making users to earn more token according to the staked token amount and period on Solana chain
Skills and deliverables: Solana, Golang, Blockchain, Smart Contract, DeFi, NFT, Tokenomics, Rust, React

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Solana DEX

Development for exchanging with various Tokens with Several chains
Skills and deliverables: Solana, Golang, Blockchain, Smart Contract, DeFi, DEX, Tokenomics, Rust, React

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Realtime Application with SQLite Database

Perfect C++ coding, Database design, Crash recovery, Avoiding corruption, Performance tuning, Query optimization for realtime SQLite database.

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Skills