Intro
My name is Josh Stein. Welcome to my site!
I am currently a Developer Advocate at Celestia Labs. I work on the Developer Relations team and focus on documentation, demos, and hackathons. I am also an editor for the Celestia Improvement Proposal process, which you can get involved in at cips.celestia.org and forum.celestia.org.
If you're looking to get in touch, I am most active on X (@JoshCStein) and Farcaster (@jcs).
About me
I began my journey into the computer science world when I was finishing university during the pandemic. I discovered my love for making lightweight websites and my love for blockchains shortly after.
I completed my Bachelor of Science in Business concentrating in Supply Chain Management and Analytics from VCU's School of Business and a Minor in Mathematics in May 2021. I made Dean's List in August 2020 and May 2021.
In October 2021, I discovered buildspace through Developer DAO. This led me to my first frontend contract and then a short gig as a teaching assistant with buildspace. Next, I worked full-time as a Developer Relations Engineer at Ankr.
I'm also hanging out in Developer DAO and Peeple DAO.
While I don't keep them up-to-date, if you're interested (or looking for) my old portfolios, you can find them here:
- joshcs-lol (2022-2024)
- joshcs.xyz (2021-2022)
- jcs-dev (2021)
- jcstein.com (2020-2021)
- josh.onrender.com (2020-2021)
In the past, I also co-founded Lattice Supply.
The next pages show my previous projects, presentations, and things I've built.
My work
Projects
Presentations
Tutorials
- How to Deploy Your First Polygon NFT with an ERC-721 Solidity Smart Contract and Ankr
- How to Deploy an ERC-721 Smart Contract to Avalanche and Mint an NFT with Ankr, Hardhat, and Ethers.js
- Deploy a dApp with RainbowKit, Ankr, React, and Chakra-UI
- How to Set Up your own Solana Pay PoS (Live Demo)
Writing
Design
Art galleries
Projects
- quick install celestia-node
bash -c "$(curl -sL https://docs.celestia.org/celestia-node.sh)"
- quick install celestia-app
bash -c "$(curl -sL https://docs.celestia.org/celestia-app.sh)"
- celestia.cool - a Celestia mempool visualization
- light-nodes - an NPM package for using celestia-node
- Quazar - a Celestia light node client for macOS
- moveyourcar.lol - a bot to send you parking notifications near you
- An implementation of Scaffold-ETH Optimistic Loogies on a rollup
- Screen Names - a lightweight app to help you rename screenshots on macOS
- build market - NFT marketplace on Goerli built with thirdweb
- Base64 SVG tutorial with Celestia
- Bitcoin + Rollkit + EVM demo - Bitkit.dev
- Celestia EVM rollup demo - Say Moo
- Celestia EVM rollup demo - GM Portal
- Bundlr JS demo uploader
- R3sume - my resume as an NFT
- thirdweb + rainbowkit + wagmi + vite ERC-1155 minting site
- Vite Tree - DIY React Linketree with Chakra UI
- Vite Tailwind Starter Repository
- RainbowKit Starter (Vite + React + Tailwind CSS)
- Multichain NFT Gallery
- Ankr Pay-as-you-go Calculator
- My List of Decentralized Tooling
- web3con by DeveloperDAO
- XP Radio Linktree-style Chakra UI + React
- SpeedRunEthereum.com
- pointer.gg - Solidity Keyboard Generator
- buildspace - Wellness DAO, build your own DAO
- buildspace - Blockify Solana NFT collection
- buildspace - Solana dApp
- buildspace - playable NFTs
- buildspace - minting site
- buildspace - intro to web3
- Sequoia Vans, i18n demo
- 3SLR Zora Demo
- Is SNL New Tonight?
Presentations
- How to build whatever (Encode Club's Chain Abstraction educate series)
- How to build whatever (Modular Summit 3.0)
- How to Build Whatever (Consensus 2024)
- Building with OP Stack (Infinite Space Bazaar)
- OP Stack Rollup Workshop
- Celestia Light Node Tutorial (Modular Summit 2.0)
- Developer Infrastructure Panel
- DevNTell - Modular Blockchains
- Theory Thursdays: Celestia w/ Josh Stein
- WAGMI on Polygon - Episode 3 ft Josh Stein
- Deploy an ERC-721 Smart Contract and Mint NFT on Avalanche with Ankr (Avalanche House - Berlin, Germany, July 2022)
- Metaverse Panel with Ankr, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Meta (LA Hacks @ UCLA - Los Angeles, California, May 2022)
- How to Deploy an ERC-721 Contract and Mint Your First NFT - Workshop (LA Hacks @ UCLA - Los Angeles, California, April 2022)
- Ankr Hybrid Infrastructure (ETH Dubai, March 2022)
- Web3 Developer Tools: My Journey into Web3 and the Ankr Premium Plan (Avalanche Summit - Barcelona, Spain, March 2022)
- Avalanche Summit Hackathon Bounties (Avalanche Summit - Barcelona, Spain, March 2022)
Verify my identity
If you're verifying my identity, my only telegram is @josh_cs
(please, don't use this as an invitation to spam me).
My discord handle is joshcs.eth
(previously joshcs.eth#3384
-- same note as above, btw).
This is my only LinkedIn portfolio.