I Quit My Job At Accenture After Learning About Blockchain

Ravinder Deol

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Solidity Weekly

2 min readApr 2, 2020

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Name: Hargobind Gupta

Role: Blockchain Developer & Trainer @ Emurgo

Location: Hyderabad, India

Hargobind is an early blockchain adopter, with 5+ years of product development experience. His routine entails providing architectural designs, consulting & implementing solutions to leverage blockchain.

1. What Was Your First Contact With Blockchain Technology?

I was at a meet-up in late 2016 where a friend started talking about Bitcoin. I discussed it a little, but it was when I went home I really started digging into everything I could find about this thing called ‘Bitcoin’.

In fact, I made some Bitcoin playing games that night! I realised the real innovation blockchain, would be a revolutionary technology.

A month after I quit my job at Accenture, and co-founded Xyabot — a platform to revolutionise the relationship between gamers, and game devs.

2. In Which Industry Are You Implementing Blockchain?

Initially within the online gaming space. Since then I have contributed to DeFi, Healthcare, Real Estate & FinTech projects. I’ve built dApps, and coded smart contracts for these particular projects.

3. What Type Of Projects Have You Developed In Blockchain?

Peer To Peer Lending
Supply Chain For Healthcare
Land Registration
Tokenizing Equities For A FinTech Company

4. What Problems Can Be Solved With Blockchain?

Without a question of a doubt, centralisation. Blockchain technology can disrupt all industries where an often unnecessary middle-man is present. The incentivising techniques will result in a whole new level of dApps.

5. How Would You Describe Your Experience As A Developer?

The lack of education was hard being an early adopter. However, both the Reddit & StackOverflow communities have been a great help. I learned the hard-way (yet the most valuable) by experimenting with blockchain.

Today I’m a blockchain career coach with Upgrade & Emurgo. I’m able to guide my students in a way I would’ve liked to have been shown.