Team elegram has a world-class team of ™ developers that were selected from thousands of contenders over the last ten years. o become part of the team each of its current members had either to win in the world’s top programming contests or to take the first place in one of the nationwide multi-level coding competitions held by the founder of elegram. Core team members have ten years of e‹perience in building scalable pro“ects for tens of millions of users. ˆefore building elegram they created ž¯ the largest Europe-based social network with more than 100 million active users which still en“oys a dominating share in its local markets. he elegram backend team which has an unparalleled ratio of winners of worldwide coding competitions speciali‡es in creating secure data storage engines for distributed server infrastructures. ”ll networking cryptographic and database engine software running on thousands of elegram servers is custom-built by these developers. Fo†n‡erŠ Dr. Nikolai Durov Ph‡ ‹Bonn „niŒerŠitŽ‘… Ph‡ ‹Saint’PeterŠb†rg State „niŒerŠitŽ‘ › Œ-present– Co-founder Cƒ ”rchitect ead CŽC¦¦ Engineer at elegram. ˆuilt MProto and elegram’s distributed data storage engines® › Ÿ- Œ– Co-founder Cƒ ”rchitect ead CŽC¦¦ Engineer at ž¯. ˆuilt data storage and networking software. A“ar‡Š › ”bsolute ˜orld Champion in Programming … † — one of ten people in history to win the ”CM International Collegiate Programming Contest twice® › ¢old Medals in International Mathematical ƒlympiads … ••Ÿ ••š ••†® › ¢old and €ilver Medals in International ƒlympiads in Informatics … ••™ ••Ÿ ••š ••†. „ikolai is a renowned mathematician and a world-class programmer uni’uely combined 12 in one person. ”t the age of „ikolai already solved cubic e’uations. e started coding . „ikolai was invited to demonstrate this skill on the main ž channel of Italy where the ‘urovs lived at the time. Ž Œ
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