Evgeny Kuzyakov

Evgeny Kuzyakov is a software engineer and blockchain developer associated with the NEAR ecosystem. He is a co-founder of FastNEAR, which provides RPC services, blockchain data APIs, and developer tools for NEAR Protocol, and the founder of NEAR.social.^[1]

Education

Kuzyakov earned a master's degree in computer science from Izhevsk State Technical University (2005-2011). ^[2]​^[3]​

Career

Evgeny Kuzyakov worked as a Software Engineer at Google from October 2011 to January 2015, contributing to social analytics and Google+ Discovery, including systems for recommending people to users. He previously completed a software engineering internship at Facebook from August to December 2010, working with the platform and games team. ^[4]

From January 2015 to December 2017, Kuzyakov was a Senior Software Engineer at Facebook in Menlo Park, California. His work focused on 360-degree video technology, including content-dependent streaming, custom video projections, virtual reality rendering, and improvements to playback and delivery. ^[3]

In August 2018, Kuzyakov joined NEAR Protocol as a Senior Software Engineer, where he worked on the transaction runtime and the use of WebAssembly (WASM) as a smart contract execution engine. He remained with NEAR until August 2021. ^{[1] [2] [3]}