Nidhin Mahesh A
- Engineer/Maintainer at Rubixchain (Proof of Pledge Blockchain)
- nidhinmahesh1@gmail.com
- Former Blockchain Dev, TIFAC Core in Cyber Security, Coimbatore, IN
- Former Blockchain Intern, Center for Wireless Networks & Applications, Kerala, IN.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4774-1845
Nidhin Mahesh co-leads the development and support of Rubix. He and his team have made substantial contributions to develop Rubix’s revolutionary Proof-of-Pledge protocol, peer-to-peer data transfer and transaction processing functions. He also built the payment interface, staking of tokens and on-chain wallets to support the Rubix ecosystem. Nidhin’s team also continues to develop new functionalities to help continually improve and optimize Rubix as a state-of-the-art, no gas fee L1 green blockchain platform.
Nidhin has a bachelor’s in technology from Amrita University and led the Google Developer Student and Free and Open-Source Software club to substantially increase the open-source code contributions from various developers. He is passionate about distributed networks, connected devices and distributed ledger technologies, and remains focused on using these concepts to transform the current financial services landscape.
Nidhin has authored and published multiple research papers in collaboration with Amrita Wireless networks and TIFAC-Core in cyber security, Coimbatore.
Nidhin actively recruits and mentors developers to grow Rubix’s developer community.
Interests. Blockchain for data provenance - testbed, Service Mesh, Flutter, Edge AI.
Interests. Blockchain for data provenance - testbed, Service Mesh, Flutter, Edge AI.
Publications
2020
- Blockchain Framework for Social Media DRM based on Secret Sharing, Springer International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Intelligent Systems (ICTIS) 2020 - Ahmedabad. Kripa M, Nidhin Mahesh A, Ramaguru R, and Amritha P P.
2019
- Conceptualizing Blockchain based Energy Market for Self Sustainable Community, 2nd Workshop on Blockchain-enabled Networked Sensor Systems (BlockSys 2019) November 10th 2019, Columbia University, New York, in conjunction with ACM SenSys 2019. Nidhin Mahesh A, Sai Shibu N B, Balamurugan S.
- Decentralized Power System and Future Mobility: The Use Cases of Community Driven Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure, 1st ACM International Workshop on Technology Enablers and Innovative Applications for Smart Cities (TESCA – 2019) November 10, 2019 at Columbia University, New York. Sai Shibu N B, Balamurugan S, Arjun D, Nidhin Mahesh A
Released Projects
- Academia: Campus level Blockchain testbed for resource sharing using Raspberry Pi As an intern at Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications (AWNA) research center, I'm developed a Blockchain network on ARMv7 and AArch64 based Raspberry Pi devices to share and manage resources within the campus. For this tier, an extensive computing background including skills in Unix/Linux/Ubuntu, Docker (containerization) etc. are needed. It’s complex and yet not much programming needed.
- Freelance: Grocery aggregator and logistic service — Flutter API integration + Animation COVID-19 lockdown had significant impact on supermarket sellers, this project came from partnership with enegetic local vendors, to combines a known delivery management technique to easy and conveninent grocery delivery experience abiding to preventive measures by govt.
- Freelance: VoIP based dating network — VoIP, Flutter Partnered with a startup to prototype a VoIP based proof of concept application to enable investment pitch and internal testing for the founders.
- Freelance: Clubby - Project collaboration and social networking — Flutter Created a project collaboration app for upcoming major short movie festival hosted by the client. I worked with a team to integrate API, Chat and Google Sign-in and tokens to the iOS and Android releases.
- Freelance: Mobile Payment Transaction and Analysis — PHP Money accepted physically is stored as virtual money in user’s wallet. This was used in stalls during Robotsavam-2017 fest. Data Tables API, JSON, jQuery and AJAX were used.
Rejected Proposals
- GSoC 2019: Analytical Visualization Tool for Processing This project aims at making an analytical dashboard for Processing. A visually minimalistic and carefully designed dashboard is essential for effortless insights and important usage information at a glance. Proposed visualization tool consists of top 3 most used in Processing Development Environment (PDE), most used per type and community growth graphs. Another feature the project will introduce is to send auto-generated emails containing monthly insights to permitted members of Processing.