Looking for work ? Blockchain engineers are in demand

Looking for work ? Blockchain engineers are in demand

Demand is off the charts for blockchain talent and the jobs are opening. More than $3.7 billion has been raised through ICOs in the United States alone. Blockchain related jobs are the second-fastest growing in today’s labor market; there are now 14 job openings for every one blockchain developer.

Requests for on-demand blockchain talent are rising as fast as they are posted. Last year blockchain positions were the fastest-growing skill out of more than 5,000 skills in terms of freelancer billings.  Now, little over a year in the making there is a increase of more than 35,000 percent. These requests span ICO advisory services, engineering projects and overall blockchain consultancy.

The quickest way to learn blockchain is

 

You need to be a Developer. 

Have an understanding of fundamental of programming including OOPs, procedural language, flat and relational database.

Understanding of Data structures is a must have skills to learn any technology.

Understanding of Data Structures including Stack, Queues, LinkedList, Tree, and HashMaps. You should also understand the time and resource complexity of querying a data structure.

As blockchain technology is decentralized, it also means you should be writing very efficient code, which means not consuming processing, memory or network bandwidth.

Bad code is just too expensive in the decentralized architecture.

Understanding of basic architectures like MVC, MVVM, Document-View Architecture, Microservices could help in deeply understanding the differences between convention and Decentralized architecture. You must understand the fundamentals of Communication Architectures including but not limited to Publisher subscriber, a Message broker, Bus architecture will be useful.

Finally you should be comfortable with any one of the programming language. It could be C, C++, JavaScript.

Becoming a Blockchain developer:

You should have an understanding of centralized and distributed network so that you will be able to understand the value of decentralized architectures as Blockchain brings to the table.

To start coding an application on the blockchain, you can use any of the platforms like Hyper Ledger, Ethereum or HashGraph. The coding on blockchain is not complicated as the underlying technology works of its own, and you are mostly writing your business layer in JavaScript most of the time.

You can also shop for blockchain books on Packtpub.com or find on-line courses on UDemy or Youtube.

One last note, keep an open mind on this technology, understand how Bitcoin works and you will see nothing but work for the next few years.