Has 20+ years of experience as a software engineer and software architect His first introduction to the crypto space dates back to 2011, when he attempted to mine Litecoin. In late 2016, he built his first mining farm for Ethereum. After mining Ethereum for a couple of years, he launched a YouTube channel called CryptoManiac, on which he conducted live security audits of smart contracts. During one of the live streams, Anton Bukov, who would later become the co-founder of 1inch, joined in. The two developers hit it off and, for the next six months, Anton became the co-host of the channel, now renamed to CryptoManiacs. Together, they participated in 17 hackathons around the globe. Later, at a hackathon in New York in May 2019, they developed an aggregator MVP for decentralized exchanges.