Yoni Svechinsky
Founder at KREATOR
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYoni Svechinsky is a founder and seasoned software leader with nine years of experience building products at the intersection of crypto, ML, and neuroscience. He’s held technical and leadership roles from CTO and co‑founder positions to Director of SW and Research at brain.space, and now runs a stealth venture while partnering at KREATOR. Yoni brings hands‑on backend expertise—evident from contributions to the Mimblewimble grin cryptocurrency implementation around serialization, hex encoding and peer configuration—alongside a physics BSc that informs a rigorous, research-driven approach. Comfortable moving between low-level protocol work and high-level product strategy, he’s quietly focused on “figuring out the brain,” blending entrepreneurial grit with deep technical curiosity.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Physics, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Physics at Tel Aviv University
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Github Skills (17)
back-end-development10
mib10
data-serialization10
im10
serialization10
cryptography10
nimble10
rust10
cryptocurrency9
network8
p2p8
net8
proof7
proofs7
scalability6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
mimblewimble/grin
Dec 2018 - Feb 2019
Minimal implementation of the Mimblewimble protocol.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 3 PRs, 18 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Yoni primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Mimblewimble grin cryptocurrency project. Their work involved implementing features such as the configuration of a dandelion peer and the addition of a slate version field. Additionally, they made code improvements including more idiomatic code, and removing redundant code elements. The user also focused on serialization and hex encoding for cryptographic data within the project.
cryptographyrustprotocolmimblewimblecryptocurrency
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