Summary
Andrei Zavgorodnii is a CTO and software engineer with 11 years of experience building blockchain infrastructure, smart contracts, and data-intensive systems. He currently leads Neutron development at Hadron Labs, driving Cosmos SDK module and CosmWasm contract design while shaping engineering processes and team growth. His background spans L1 blockchain development and DeFi (technical lead for Lido on Terra) as well as real-time ML Ops and data availability for Delivery Club, giving him rare cross-domain expertise across Web2 and Web3. Proficient in Go, Python, and Rust, he focuses on scalable, resilient architectures and production-grade monitoring. Early work in cybersecurity on intelligent DDoS protection informs his attention to system robustness and threat-aware design. Trained in theoretical and mathematical linguistics, he brings an analytical, language-driven approach to protocol and system design.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Theoretical and Mathematical Linguistics, Master's degree, Theoretical and Mathematical Linguistics at Московский Государственный Университет им. М.В. Ломоносова (МГУ)
Lomonosov Moscow State University