Arvinda R
Earth, Texas, Trinidad and Tobago
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolArvinda R is a strategist and technologist with 10 years’ experience bridging entrepreneurship, fintech and community-building across the Caribbean. A co-founder of both a fintech startup (BitBox TT) and a social impact nonprofit (Share Goodness), Arvinda combines product-minded execution with ecosystem development to improve e-commerce and digital inclusion in Trinidad & Tobago. He’s contributed backend improvements to notable open-source bitcoin banking infrastructure (GaloyMoney/blink), demonstrating hands-on skills in payments, transaction handling and refactoring. With an MSc in Entrepreneurship from the University of Nottingham and a first-class BSc in Management Studies with Finance, he blends rigorous business training with technical curiosity in design and social channels. Notably, he gravitates toward projects that turn technology into community value, from regional blockchain adoption efforts to university and city-level TEDx events.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Management Studies with Finance, 1st Class Honours, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Management Studies with Finance, 1st Class Honours at University of the West Indies, St. Augustine CampusMSc, Entrepreneurship, MSc, Entrepreneurship at University of NottinghamA-Level, Natural Sciences & Math, A-Level, Natural Sciences & Math at Presentation College Chaguanas
English, Spanish, Thai
Github Skills (7)
typescript10
bitcoin10
typescripts10
bitcoins10
back-end-development10
typescript-types10
configuration-management9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
GaloyMoney/blink
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
bitcoin banking infrastructure
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1512 reviews, 2080 commits, 1072 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Arvinda's contributions focused on improvements to the bitcoin banking infrastructure of the blink repository. Their work included fixing formatting issues, refactoring the configuration of the SpecterWallet to remove redundant parameters, and converting static methods within the SpecterWallet class to instance methods. Furthermore, the user contributed to the handling of pending transactions.
paymentsinfrastructurebankingcryptocurrencycommunity-banking
peakshift/telegram-dogecoin
Jun 2018 - May 2021
🐕 Telegram Dogecoin Tipbot (on chain)
Contributions:2 reviews, 90 commits, 15 PRs in 2 years 11 months
telegram-boton-chaindogecointelegramchain
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