{"version":1,"id":"evgeny-kuzyakov","title":"Evgeny Kuzyakov","summary":"Evgeny Kuzyakov is a software engineer and entrepreneur known for co-founding FastNEAR, founding NEAR.social, and working on virtual reality products at Facebook.","content":"**Evgeny Kuzyakov** is a software engineer and [blockchain](https://iq.wiki/wiki/blockchain) developer associated with the [NEAR](https://iq.wiki/wiki/near-protocol) ecosystem. He is a co-founder of [FastNEAR](https://iq.wiki/wiki/fastnear), which provides RPC services, [blockchain](https://iq.wiki/wiki/blockchain) data APIs, and developer tools for [NEAR Protocol](https://iq.wiki/wiki/near-protocol), and the founder of NEAR.social.[\\[1\\]](#cite-id-wws19ivins) \n\n## Education\n\nKuzyakov earned a master's degree in computer science from Izhevsk State Technical University (2005-2011). [\\[2\\]](#cite-id-jqo6nxmgam)​[\\[3\\]](#cite-id-qsotvtfny1)​\n\n## Career\n\nEvgeny Kuzyakov worked as a Software Engineer at Google from October 2011 to January 2015, contributing to social analytics and Google+ Discovery, including systems for recommending people to users. He previously completed a software engineering internship at Facebook from August to December 2010, working with the platform and games team.  [\\[4\\]](#cite-id-sk9a88ttol) \n\nFrom January 2015 to December 2017, Kuzyakov was a Senior Software Engineer at Facebook in Menlo Park, California. His work focused on 360-degree video technology, including content-dependent streaming, custom video projections, virtual reality rendering, and improvements to playback and delivery. [\\[3\\]](#cite-id-qsotvtfny1) \n\nIn August 2018, Kuzyakov joined NEAR Protocol as a Senior Software Engineer, where he worked on the transaction runtime and the use of WebAssembly (WASM) as a smart contract execution engine. He remained with NEAR until August 2021.  [\\[1\\]](#cite-id-wws19ivins)  [\\[2\\]](#cite-id-jqo6nxmgam)  [\\[3\\]](#cite-id-qsotvtfny1) \n","categories":[{"id":"people","title":"people"}],"tags":[{"id":"Founder"},{"id":"Developer"}],"images":[{"id":"QmW7c8UtrDLinRVb39BcZjkW1CpTybisAfgs81iV6yp1d3","type":"image/jpeg, image/png"}],"media":[],"metadata":[{"id":"references","value":"[{\"id\":\"wws19ivins\",\"description\":\"CryptoRank - Evgeny Kuzyakov\",\"timestamp\":1792311712636,\"url\":\"https://cryptorank.io/persons/evgeny-kuzyakov\"},{\"id\":\"jqo6nxmgam\",\"description\":\"LinkedIn: Evgeny Kuzyakov\",\"timestamp\":1792311718369,\"url\":\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/ekuzyakov\"},{\"id\":\"qsotvtfny1\",\"description\":\"Mesh - Evgeny Kuzyakov, AI, Blockchain, WebAssembly, Rust\",\"timestamp\":1792311744173,\"url\":\"https://me.sh/profile/evgeny-kuzyakov\"},{\"id\":\"sk9a88ttol\",\"description\":\"Evgeny Kuzyakov Official Website\",\"timestamp\":1792311755753,\"url\":\"https://kuzyakov.com/about/\"},{\"id\":\"jtgla42fmt\",\"url\":\"https://x.com/ekuzyakov\",\"description\":\"Kuzyakov on X\",\"timestamp\":1792311493624}]"},{"id":"linkedin_profile","value":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/ekuzyakov"},{"id":"twitter_profile","value":"https://x.com/ekuzyakov"},{"id":"main-image-origin","value":"{\"imageId\":\"QmW7c8UtrDLinRVb39BcZjkW1CpTybisAfgs81iV6yp1d3\",\"originalId\":\"QmW7c8UtrDLinRVb39BcZjkW1CpTybisAfgs81iV6yp1d3\"}"},{"id":"commit-message","value":"Add Evgeny Kuzyakov wiki"}],"events":[],"linkedWikis":{"founders":["fastnear"],"blockchains":[],"speakers":[]},"user":{"id":"0x8af7a19a26d8fbc48defb35aefb15ec8c407f889"},"author":{"id":"0x4a2bC97afBF41a2Cbf4b4628F63420682Ff4CF2a"},"language":"en","operator":{"id":"0x4a2bC97afBF41a2Cbf4b4628F63420682Ff4CF2a"}}