BlockPro.One is happy to announce that we have successfully been running our tests on the Dawn 3.0.0 version and the 04-23-2018 and 04-27-18 versions of Dawn Alpha and have tested very many features of the EOS software along with other community members and suggested improvements that could be made to the base EOS distribution to make high availabilty and clustering/load balancing a much easier process in production environments. We are hopeful that Block.One will be releasing some updates to help a more uniform method of implementing HA at an application level without any risks of forking or unduly long down times. The best outcome of all the efforts and discussions we had was that we identified many different methods of HA implementation and we have temporary solutions at hand until Block One provides us with a built in support for addressing some of the critical issues we had encountered.
One additional item we like to update you is that when we published the first version of our candidacy, we did not include the pictures of team members in the steemit article. Later we realized that more than being on our website, it has to be published in steemit.
So we are happy to introduce our team members here. All our team members have more than 10 years of experience in IT Operations Management, DevOps, Development, Bare Metal and Data center operations, Network level configuration management and Linux/Unix system administration with knowledge of blockchain operations. With help of an experienced and professional team, we are very confident that we can deliver on the aspirations we have of supporting and maintaining the EOS blockchain as one of the best in the world.
The Team:
Ravi Narayanan (CEO/CTO)
Ravi Narayanan has over 25 years experience in managing development, maintenance and management of software database systems, application servers, networking hardware and routers. He was the founder and CEO of two startup ventures one of which was PowerPro software which was a systems management company. PowerPro was acquired by Quarterdeck which later became a part of Symantec. He directed product management at Cisco Systems, IBM and Informix in database management and networking software (IOS) for both high availability and scalability. Ravi is an MBA from the top reputed Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and he also has a BS in Electronics and Computer Science.
Sanjay Adisesha (COO)
Sanjay has over 15 years of experience in handling systems integration, quality control management at top multinational companies - Altisource and Siemens Electric. Later he had the aspiration to start on his own entrepreneurial venture and started Geek Technologies which is one of the premier companies in Bangalore for teaching different programming, system administration and QA skills to many students who were either wanting a change in career or were looking for better career prospects. His knowledge of system administration, integration of various middleware and application level packages and managing IT operations will come to be of great help to BlockPro as we venture with EOS into the next versions of multithreaded implementations, integration and hosting of many Dapps and IPFS implementation. Sanjay has a Bachelors in Engineering from VTU Bangalore and an Executive MBA in Information Technology from United Business Institute, Brussels, Belgium.
Ravindra Kumar (Cloud and Software Architect)
Ravindra Kumar has over 10 years experience in developement of web applications with Java / C++ and detailed knowledge of Unix and Linux system administration. He has detailed knowledge of cloud services deployment in AWS and Azure. He has worked in implementing high end enterprise applications in Fujitsu. He had earlier worked in Quality Control and implementation of test automation suites in a variety of production and development environments for various clients of Fujitsu. He has also worked on various blockchain based prototype applications for the UK post office system and the Identity management system being developed by major Indian banks. After looking at the high potential and value of EOS blockchain, he decided to get involved with BlockPro and work in the implementation of the Block Producer architecture and he will be working also on some of the community Dapps we will be releasing soon. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Bangalore University and MSC in Computing - Software Engineering from Imperial College of London.
Shivaram Singh (Systems Administrator)
Shivaram is a highly experienced with over 10 years experience in System administration and Dev Ops for various highly available and high performance implementations of enterprise level software on both AWS and Bare Metal server environments. He is highly skilled in configuring routers, switches, firewalls and managing software patches at both operating system and application level, implementation of best practices for monitoring IT operations, implementing best security practices, hardening at various level OS/Machine/AWS/Network/App level for security and implementing clustering and failover configurations on AWS, Bare metal and Hybrid environments. With his detailed knowledge of day to day systems management skills Shivram is a great asset to BlockPro team in our quest for a best of breed implementation of EOS. He is a Red Hat Certified Engineer in Enterprise Linux and has mantained large enterprise data center with 250+ blade servers, with 3 PAR SAN and IBM SAN. He holds a BTech degree in Information Technology.
Technical Specs Update:
Following is a schematic of the highly level design we are implementing for roll after June 3rd.
We will keep updating our community on our progress with our own testnet implementations and our experiences with learning and being part of the launch group in the days to come.
With a solid team and the experience to back us behind, we are very hopeful that the EOS community will recognize and support us in our ambition to be a block producer of the highest quality and availability. We will be thankful to and worthy of trust by all who vote for us and we also thank all our community members and friends who have helped us in being a part of this ecosystem.