Anatoly Yakovenko
Anatoly Yakovenko is Co-Founder and CEO of Solana, the fastest blockchain in the world which is changing the world of crypto and decentralized finance. Today, Solana is the fastest growing ecosystem in crypto, with thousands of projects spanning DeFi, NFTs, Web3 and more. Anatoly has over 10 years of experience in building high performance operating systems. Prior to launching Solana, he led the development of operating systems at Qualcomm, distributed systems at Mesosphere, and compression at Dropbox. In addition, his notable works include holding 2 patents for high performance operating systems protocol. He was a core developer for BREW which powered every CDMA flip phone (100m+ devices), and led development of tech that made Project Tango (VR/AR) possible on Qualcomm phones.
Anatoly Yakovenko Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer
Academic History
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Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
QUALCOMM
Led a team for high performance Hexagon DSP off-loading software stack chipsets for next-gen applications
Commercial applications including Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, 3D Camera processing, 4K video post-processing, and GoogleX’s Project Tango.
Technology used by 3rd party developers from major OEMS, such as Samsung, LG, Google, Xiaomi, OnePlus.
Built critical features such as application sandboxing, device driver framework, interprocess communication, system call tracing tools, IDL compilers.
Implemented various network protocols such as SIP/RTP/HTTP, and high performance logging and tracing tools.
PATENTS
Techniques for general-purpose lossless data compression using a recurrent neural network (US 9941900)
Exposing host operating system services to an auxiliary processor (US 20140136817)
Fast remote procedure call (US 20140096148)
Extending protection domains to coprocessors (US US20150301955)
MEDIA
Anatoly has written several articles on his blog on Medium.
He has also appeared as a guest on Real Vision.