# Evgeny Kuzyakov

> Evgeny Kuzyakov is a software engineer and entrepreneur known for co-founding FastNEAR, founding NEAR.social, and working on virtual reality products at Facebook.

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- Created: 2026-10-18T08:26:42.896Z
- Last updated: 2026-10-18T08:26:42.896Z
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**Evgeny Kuzyakov** is a software engineer and [blockchain](https://iq.wiki/wiki/blockchain) developer associated with the [NEAR](https://iq.wiki/wiki/near-protocol) ecosystem. He is a co-founder of [FastNEAR](https://iq.wiki/wiki/fastnear), which provides RPC services, [blockchain](https://iq.wiki/wiki/blockchain) data APIs, and developer tools for [NEAR Protocol](https://iq.wiki/wiki/near-protocol), and the founder of NEAR.social.[\[1\]](#cite-id-wws19ivins) 

## Education

Kuzyakov earned a master's degree in computer science from Izhevsk State Technical University (2005-2011). [\[2\]](#cite-id-jqo6nxmgam)​[\[3\]](#cite-id-qsotvtfny1)​

## 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.  [\[4\]](#cite-id-sk9a88ttol) 

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. [\[3\]](#cite-id-qsotvtfny1) 

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.  [\[1\]](#cite-id-wws19ivins)  [\[2\]](#cite-id-jqo6nxmgam)  [\[3\]](#cite-id-qsotvtfny1)