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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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