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Published inFeb 2018
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Mayukh Mukhopadhyay
Mayukh Mukhopadhyay
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Mayukh Mukhopadhyay started his career as a BI developer. After the 2008-09 financial crisis, he was at Tata Consultancy Services for one of their Fortune 500 clients in the telecom sector. Holding a master's in software engineering from Jadavpur University, he is presently working as a data insight developer, where he focuses on applying data science and machine learning to raw telecom equipment logs to generate business insights. He has a varied list of academic interests, ranging from audio signal processing, structural bioinformatics, and bio-inspired algorithms to consciousness engineering. Apart from being an Oracle Certified Specialist, he is a Certified Bitcoin Professional, recognized by C4 (Crypto Currency Certification Consortium). He tries to apply blockchain as a technology to different business domains.
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Ethereum improvement proposal


To become a successful Ethereum smart contract developer, apart from technical and architectural knowledge, we need to possess the ability to understand design documents. Such documentation is the Holy Grail for any developer, and provides the necessary insights into various intricacies and rationales behind any functionality. For a developer in the Ethereum community, such design documentation is maintained by many senior developers worldwide, and is known as the Ethereum improvement proposal.

The Ethereum improvement proposal is a design documentation that provides information to the Ethereum community. It is used to propose a new Ethereum feature, a new process, or a new environment. EIP provides a concise technical specification and rationale for a proposed feature. The authors of an EIP are responsible for building consensus within the community and documenting opinions of critics. Anyone can propose a new implementation using EIP and if the community agrees...

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Mayukh Mukhopadhyay

Mayukh Mukhopadhyay started his career as a BI developer. After the 2008-09 financial crisis, he was at Tata Consultancy Services for one of their Fortune 500 clients in the telecom sector. Holding a master's in software engineering from Jadavpur University, he is presently working as a data insight developer, where he focuses on applying data science and machine learning to raw telecom equipment logs to generate business insights. He has a varied list of academic interests, ranging from audio signal processing, structural bioinformatics, and bio-inspired algorithms to consciousness engineering. Apart from being an Oracle Certified Specialist, he is a Certified Bitcoin Professional, recognized by C4 (Crypto Currency Certification Consortium). He tries to apply blockchain as a technology to different business domains.
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