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Alexander Skidanov is the co-founder of NEAR Protocol. He began his professional career at Microsoft in 2009, then joined MemSQL in 2011 as Engineer #1, where he worked for five years as Architect and Director of Engineering. He has two ICPC medals (gold in 2008 and bronze in 2005).
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Alex Skidanov
Alex Skidanov is the Co-Founder of NEAR. He previously worked for Microsoft and was the first engineer to join MemSQL. He was involved in writing and constructing the world's fastest distributed relational database, which has been used by Uber, Goldman Sachs, Sony, and Intel, among others.
Marek Olszewski
Marek Olszewski is a co-founder and CTO at Celo and the President at Valora. Earlier, he co-founded Locu, a machine learning venture-backed company that was acquired by GoDaddy. He is also an MIT PhD alumni and a former Facebook Fellow and has previously worked at Google, Microsoft Research and Sun Labs.
Praneeth Srikanti
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Rituraj Yadav
Rituraj Yadav is the Founder & CEO of Sonic Wallet. He has an undergrad in Computer Science and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Columbia University, New York. He started his career building large-scale distributed cloud systems at Microsoft Azure and got intrigued into working on blockchain. After Microsoft, He worked as Senior Engineer at Zenefits where he built Zenefits Payroll and Zenefits International Contractor Payments - the systems process billions of dollars in transactions. Later, he joined WhatsApp (owned by Meta/Facebook) where he worked on building WhatsApp Payments that provided financial services to hundreds of million people across the globe.
Haichen Shen
Haichen Shen is the co-founder of Scroll and leads the engineering team. He is also an open-source enthusiast and has contributed to several open-source projects, including zkEVM, Apache TVM, and RAF. He studied at Tsinghua Yaoban for his undergraduate degree and received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington. His research focuses on the field of low-level systems. After graduating, he worked on building machine learning systems at Amazon.
Krish Chelikavada
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Tomasz Wojewoda
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Charles (Chad) DePue
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Jazear Brooks
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