Petar Maymounkov

Petar Maymounkov is a renowned figure known for co-authoring Kademlia, GoCircuit.org, and Escher.io, with a focus on developing protocols and standards for global systems and economies.

His educational background includes a Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Harvard University, an MSc in Computer Science from New York University, and a PhD in Computer Science from the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Petar has an extensive professional history, having held roles such as Technical Program Manager and Research Engineer at Protocol Labs, Senior Software Engineer at Amazon Lab126, CTO at Aljabr, Inc., Senior Engineer at Google, Research Scientist at L-3 Data Tactics, and Founder of GoCircuit.org.

His past experiences also include positions such as Research Scientist at XDATA/DARPA, Senior Engineer at Tumblr, Research Engineer at Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, Research Scientist at MERL, Doctoral Candidate at MIT, Statistical Researcher at Tower Research Capital, and Engineer at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.