At the beginning of 2022, Gemini had welcomed their CTO, Pravjit Tiwana, who joined them from Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Pravjit is responsible for leading Gemini’s Engineering, Product, and Information Security teams, with “a vision of building customer-centric innovative products that harness the opportunities of Web3, the Metaverse, and decentralized finance.”
Recently, Pravjit talked about his vision and strategy “for enhancing Gemini’s suite of products, and his plans to continue to build a world-class engineering organization.”
Pravjit has shared his vision for the crypto industry, and “why he believes that Gemini is particularly well-positioned to play a leading role in unlocking the next era of financial, creative, and personal freedom.”
After over 6 years at AWS, Pravjit says that he was attracted to the crypto industry because:
“Every few years, we see a paradigm shift in technology — we saw this with the birth of the internet and with the evolution of Web2 and expansion of cloud computing. We are now entering the next pivotal moment, one toward a distributed internet.”
He added:
“I was lucky to be part of the cloud computing journey that started in the early 2000s. The learnings and outcomes of that journey were transformational for me in understanding how the power of the cloud could enable the world to be more innovative and productive.”
Now, with Web3 and decentralized token-based economics, Pravjit sees “an opportunity to redefine the internet and aim for true economic freedom and flexibility.”
According to the CTO at Gemini, it is “a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to contribute to, influence, and most importantly, catalyze the next generation of how the online world will behave and operate.”
As noted in a blog post by Gemini, Tyler and Cameron have talked about “building the future of money, finance, and the Metaverse.”
While commenting on his vision and strategy to help the company achieve this as we enter this next evolution of the internet, Pravjit shared:
“While we are still early days in Web3, decentralized finance, and the Metaverse, Gemini is one of the pioneers in this industry that will help our customers transition into a digital and decentralized future.”
To ensure Gemini continues to be an innovative leader in this space, the CTO at Gemini is focused on the following key milestones:
- Continue to build products which are simple, secure, scalable and delight the customer, “which is our ethos for developing any product, be it in Web2 or Web3.” The core mission of crypto/Web3 companies “is no different in the sense that we have to be customer-obsessed and build products that empower them and enhance their lives.” Customer asks “are at the core of any product development plan, and they are particularly so for next-generation, transformational technologies like crypto.”
- Build a world-class bar-raising engineering organization. As crypto and Web3 have gained momentum and robust investment, “I believe the promise of a better decentralized internet will lead to increased talent migration from traditional technology companies, as curious and learning-driven talent will seek new opportunities to be part of this transformational wave.”
With the “disruptive” promise of Web3, Pravjit thinks we are “potentially going to witness an impact that has parallels to the introduction of personal computing, cloud computing, and the internet itself.”
For him, and many others in the tech industry, “the opportunity to be part of a seismic shift like this is impossible to ignore.”
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