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Dr Gavin Wood

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Profile

Bio

Dr. Gavin Wood is the founder and current director of Parity Technologies Ltd. He has designed state-of-the-art analysis tools and programming languages, as well as co-founded several technology startups. Dr. Wood has presented to numerous audiences around the world from keynotes at regional technology conferences to musings on the future of legal systems at Harvard. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of York.

Previously, he was the chief technology officer and co-founder of the Ethereum Project. He is the co-designer of the Ethereum Protocol, author of its formal specification, and created and wrote the first functional Ethereum implementation. Dr. Wood designed and stewarded the Solidity language, was the project chief of the IDE, and designed and implemented the Whisper protocol.


Career

Polkadot - founder

Layer-0 blockchain that allows for blockchain interoperability and scalability.

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Web3 Foundation - founder

Foundation nurturing cutting-edge applications for decentralized web software protocols.

Member of the Council

Parity Technologies

Parity's mission is to enable businesses and organisations to capitalise on blockchain technology and benefit from the new opportunities.

Chief Technology Officer

Ethereum Foundation - founder

Open-source, public, blockchain-based distributed computing platform featuring smart contract functionality.

Chief Technology Officer (past)

Education

The University of York

Academic institution
PhD in Computer Science