Aleksandr Shevchenko
Chief Executive Officer at Aurora Labs
Summary
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SeniorAlex Shevchenko is a technology and product leader with 11+ years building high-performance blockchain and HPC systems, currently serving as CEO and co-founder of Aurora.dev and CEO of Defuse Labs. He helped architect one of the first enterprise Layer-1 platforms (Exonum) at Bitfury and later joined NEAR Protocol’s product team, where he translated protocol-level scalability into a developer-friendly platform that bridges Ethereum tooling with high-throughput Web3. Alex holds a PhD in Applied Physics and Mathematics from MIPT, bringing a research-driven approach to product strategy and performance optimization. Known for pairing deep technical expertise with go-to-market focus, he’s driven operations and partnerships at executive level while staying hands-on in developer platform design. Originally from Ukraine, he’s focused on widening access to low-cost, user-friendly dApps for mainstream adoption.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (60)
nearprotocol9
blockchain9
ethereum9
byzantine9
rust9
webassembly9
aurora9
smart-contracts9
wallet8
erc208
exonum8
documentation8
database8
firefox8
cryptography8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
alexauroradev/bridge-testing
Jan 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:2 reviews, 29 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 7 months
djsatok/passgen
Mar 2015 - Sep 2020
Contributions:2 pushes in 5 years 7 months
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