Prakash Chand
Owner Partner at Ask The Doctor
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolPrakash Chand is a serial entrepreneur and operator with 15 years of experience building businesses across hospitality, health tech, and crypto. As Owner/Partner of Toronto venues like Runway 06 and founder of Bitcoinblack, he blends customer-facing luxury experiences with early Bitcoin advocacy and product-driven strategy. He served as CEO of Ask The Doctor, sits on multiple boards, and has a track record of founding and exiting digital ventures since the early 2000s. Technically fluent, he contributes to Rust-based P2P networking (notably work on the maidsafe-archive/crust connection manager), bridging entrepreneurial vision with hands-on backend development. Based in Old Toronto, he pairs commercial instincts with technical credibility, often operating where decentralized technology and consumer experiences intersect. Peers describe him as a pragmatic innovator who moves quickly from concept to operational reality.
15 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
12, 12 at Vincent Massey Collegiate
Github Skills (4)
peer-connection10
rust10
peer-to-peer10
cbor7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
maidsafe-archive/crust
Apr 2015 - Aug 2015
Reliable p2p network connections in Rust with NAT traversal. One of the most needed libraries for any server-less / decentralised projects
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:178 commits, 74 PRs, 23 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Prakash's commits primarily revolve around the development of the `crust` library, a Rust-based library focused on peer-to-peer network connections. Their contributions include the initial implementation and subsequent updates to the `connection_manager.rs` file, which is critical for managing network connections. They've also made updates to the project's core files and added new features to make the project compatible with nightly builds. The changes suggest a focus on network connection management and overall library functionality.
ipfsrustp2pserver-lessp2p-network
chandraprakash/routing
Mar 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:153 pushes, 18 branches in 4 months
dhtstoragerouting
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