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Growing NEAR’s Ecosystem with Decentralization
Talks about Blockchain, Near Protocol and Decentralization
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Illia Polosukhin
Founder of NEAR Protocol
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Illia Polosukhin
Founder of NEAR Protocol
Portugal
Overview
Illia Polosukhin is the Co-Founder of NEAR Protocol, with a background as an Engineering Manager at Google Research and a Software Engineer at Salford Systems. He has invested in various companies across different stages and sectors, including Clear Street in Series B and 3Box in Series A, showcasing a strong track record in supporting startups and emerging technologies.
Work Experience
Co-Founder
2017 - Current
Engineering Manager
2014 - 2017
- Co-authored “Attention Is All You Need” which introduced Transformer architecture - Managed team of Deep Learning and Natural Language Understanding Researchers. - Worked on TensorFlow (specifically TF.Learn aka SKFlow)
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Software Engineer
2008 - 2014
Development of new tools for big data predictive analytics, text mining, geo mining, as well as perfecting existing Salford Predictive Miner toolkit.
Salford Systems is a provider of advanced analytics technology for machine learning, data mining and predictive analytics.
Education
Master's degree
2007 - 2013