Stanislav Shalunov
Chief Investment Officer at Clostra
Miami, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolStanislav Shalunov is a mathematician-turned-operator who builds and bets on the future: he co-founded FORA Capital and serves as its Chief Investment Officer, running AI- and math-driven strategies that trade billions annually. As founder and CEO of Clostra he designs resilient, decentralized networking products like NewNode that keep devices connected even when the Internet fails, extending his earlier work on LEDBAT—a protocol that still carries a significant portion of software-update traffic. With a decade-plus track record founding and scaling startups (Open Garden, Prionic Labs) and leading engineering at BitTorrent and Internet2, he combines deep transport-protocol expertise with practical product execution. He has a strong academic grounding from MSU and Wisconsin-Madison in mathematics and CS, and a history of patents and standards contributions that bridge research and deployment. Less obvious: he repeatedly operates at the intersection of measurement, protocols, and real-world scale—predicting market signals at FORA while architecting networks that survive real-world outages. Based in Miami, he blends quantitative investing, distributed-systems engineering, and entrepreneurial leadership.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics with minor in Computer Science, Mathematics with minor in Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-MadisonLomonosov Moscow State University
English, Russian
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Github Skills (26)
animation10
cdn10
ledbat10
sdk10
network10
bittorrent10
python9
ipfs9
blockchain9
p2p9
streaming8
tor8
locate7
math7
transmission7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
shalunov/15-puzzle
Jul 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 9 months
solvegamejavascriptgame-ofpuzzle
shalunov/catalan-benchmark
Jul 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:19 commits, 6 PRs, 18 pushes in 17 days
benchmarkcatalan
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