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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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Praneeth Srikanti
Praneeth Srikanti is the Investment Partner & Co-founder at Ethereal Ventures and former Investment Principal at ConsenSys Ventures.
Abhinav Vora
Abhinav Vora is the co-founder and CEO of Hyperline. He was previously the head of engineering at Lyft Pink and a software engineer at Meta and Microsoft. He graduated from RMIT University.
Sahil Thaker
Sahil Thaker is the co-founder of Hyperline and previously worked at Microsoft, Uber, and Meta. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Oakland.
Krish Chelikavada
Krish Chelikavada is the Co-Founder and CEO of 0xPass, a Venture Capital Fellow of DECODE, a Course Assistant at Stanford University, a Graduate Research Assistant at Stanford, a Product Manager at Microsoft, and a Software Engineer at Oracle. He holds a Master's degree in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Business.
Lorny Pfeifer
Lorny Pfeifer is the Grants Lead at Safe and was previously the community Manager for NEAR Protocol.
Maika Isogawa
Maika Isogawa is the founder and CEO of Webacy, a venture-backed protective layer for self-custody. Prior to this, she was a cybersecurity engineer for Microsoft and was recognized as a "Forbes 30 Under 30" lister. She attended Stanford University and specialized in artificial intelligence.
Haichao Zhu
Haichao Zhu is the co-founder of Rooch Network and has worked on Algorand, Solana and other projects.
Jameel Lee
James co-founded Sending Labs and has since led its technical development. Prior to this, he participated in the development of Microsoft OS systems for Windows and Surface projects at Microsoft. After leaving Microsoft, James headed the development of Dolphin browser at MoboTap, a third-party Android mobile browser used by over 200 million users in the US, Europe, and Japan. MoboTap was later acquired by ChangYou, a leading mobile gaming platform in China. Subsequently, James led the AI algorithm at ABC Technology, the second company co-founded by Mason and Joe, who are also the co-founders of SendingLabs.
Callil Capuozzo
Callil Capuozzo is VP Design at Uniswap & adjunct at Parsons teaching design and code. Previously at Google, Microsoft and a few other places working on new and experimental products.
Isil Dillig
Isil Dillig is the Co-Founder & President at Veridise.She is a Professor of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin.