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Anatoly Yakovenko is the creator and Co-founder of Solana. He has extensive experience in technology. He led development of operating systems at Qualcomm, distributed systems at Mesosphere, and compression at Dropbox.
He holds 2 patents for high performance Operating Systems protocols, was a core kernel developer for BREW which powered every CDMA flip phone (100m+ devices).
Anatoly has a degree in Computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, he graduated in 2003.
“Solana is build-ready today. After seeing explosive growth in global developer uptake, we are convinced that scalability and throughput in blockchain are now a solved problem.” said Yakovenko, co-founder and CEO of Solana Labs, in a press release. “The next phase is onboarding a billion users. Solana was built from the ground up to accommodate this scale. With this funding, Solana Labs is now positioned to bring in the right partners and capital to build products and tooling to get there.
Anatoly Yakovenko
Source: Solana.