Ilya Polosukhin is a software engineer and entrepreneur who serves as the Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of NEAR Protocol. In this capacity, he oversees the technical development of the NEAR Protocol platform and its various components.

Polosukhin brings extensive experience in software engineering, having held leadership positions at notable technology companies such as Google and NVIDIA. He possesses deep expertise in distributed systems and blockchain technology, and has authored numerous research papers on subjects including data storage and distributed systems.

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