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Björn Wagner
Björn Wagner is co-founder and CEO of Parity Technologies and founder of Polkadot.
William Pankiewicz
William Pankiewicz is the Master of Validators at Parity Technologies. He was formerly the Lead Blockchain Engineer at Binance, Founder and CEO at Ahania Capital, and Full Stack Blockchain Engineer at AugmentPartners Limited.
Joshua Cheong
Joshua Cheong is the Head of Product at Mantle Network and previously worked at Parity Technologies. He is a graduate of the Singapore University of Technology and Design.
Anton Kaliaev
Anton Kaliaev is Software engineer, polyglot developer, 8 years of experience in commercial software development, not a great programmer; just a good programmer with great habits. I did not focus on any particular language. Instead, I decided to devote more time to fundamental things (how OS works, design patterns, etc.). I like debug and fix complex bugs (using Linux utilities like strace, iostat, tcpdump and others); think about application's architecture and ways to improve it (although, sometimes I feel I do not have enough experience); see how the project I'm working on helps people and makes them happier; share knowledge with my colleagues. I am able to write code on a marker board in Erlang or Ruby or Golang. At various times I wrote > 1000 lines in Golang, Erlang, Ruby, Java, C, Clojure, Javascript, PHP, C# (I forgot last 3 languages). What I use in my daily work: Linux, Git, Ansible, Docker, Tmux, and Vim.
James Cliff
James Cliff is the COO of Parity Technologies. He graduated from the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Jia Yaoqi
Jia Yaoqi is the Founder and CEO of AltLayer. He is also the Co-founder and Advisor of Zilliqa. Previously, he led the development and advocacy of technologies such as Substrate and Polkadot, and grew the developer community. Jia Yaoqi graduated from the National University of Singapore.
Shawn Tabrizi
Shawn Tabrizi is a full-time engineer living in Berlin. I was born and raised in the heart of the Bay Area, a breeding pool of technology and innovation. At the age of 13, I began programming, attempting to learn how to hack my PlayStation Portable so I could play free games. Through the PSP hacking community, I discovered the immense potential of computers, programming, and the internet. I graduated from the College of Creative Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, with a degree in Physics and Mathematics. Shortly afterwards, I joined Microsoft to work on Microsoft Azure, their cloud computing services. Recently, I joined Parity Technologies as a Core Developer, working on blockchain infrastructure and the future of decentralization on the web.
Kirill Pimenov
Kirill Pimenov is a co-founder of Kampela and was previously Head of Security at Parity Technologies, where he supervises audits, manages bug bounties, and advances Parity’s secure development practices. He previously developed nontrivial application backends as a CTO of his own startup, and worked on continuously delivering web-facing services for Suse Linux.
William Croisettier
William Croisettier is the Chief Growth Officer at zkCandy and previously served as Head of Ecosystem Venture Capital at Parity Technologies and R3. He is a graduate of Stanford University.
Eric Wang
Eric Wang is the Head of BD at Analog, where he oversees its go-to-market, partnerships, and strategy. Prior to Analog, he was the Head of Strategic Growth at Parity Technologies, in charge of growing Polkadot’s ecosystem from 2019-2022, and was a General Partner at ROK Capital. Eric is a Chemistry PhD dropout from Stanford and holds a MS from Stanford and BS from UCLA.