Gavin Wood

Gavin Wood is a British computer programmer who co-founded Ethereum.[1] He invented Solidity and wrote the Yellow Paper specifying the Ethereum Virtual Machine, and served as the Ethereum Foundation's first chief technology officer. After leaving in 2016, he co-founded Parity Technologies (formerly Ethcore), which develops core infrastructure for Ethereum, Bitcoin, Zcash and Polkadot, an interoperability protocol he also co-founded.

Gavin Wood
Gavin Wood speaking in 2015
BornApril 1980 (age 40)
Lancaster, United Kingdom
NationalityBritish
EducationLancaster Royal Grammar School
Alma materUniversity of York
Known forCo-founder of Ethereum and former CTO of the Ethereum Foundation; co-founder of Polkadot; CWO and Chairman of Parity Technologies; author of the Polkadot paper and the Ethereum Yellow Paper

Career

Prior to developing Ethereum, Wood worked as a research scientist at Microsoft.[1] He co-founded Ethereum, which he has described as "one computer for the entire planet,"[2] with Vitalik Buterin and others during 2013–2014.[3] Wood wrote Ethereum's coding language, Solidity,[4] and released the Yellow Paper defining the Ethereum Virtual Machine,[5][6] the runtime system for Smart contracts in Ethereum, in 2014.[7] He also served as the Ethereum Foundation's first chief technology officer.[8][9] Wood left Ethereum in 2016.[10]

Wood founded Parity Technologies (formerly Ethcore), which developed a client for the Ethereum network and creates software for companies using blockchain technology, with Jutta Steiner, who also previously worked at the Ethereum Foundation.[1][9] The company released the Parity Ethereum software client, written in Rust, in early 2016. He serves as Parity's CWO, as of 2018.

He founded the Web3 Foundation, a nonprofit organisation focusing on decentralised internet infrastructure and technology, starting with Polkadot network.[9]

References
  1. Francisco, Danny Fortson in San (25 June 2017). "British coder revealed as brains behind bitcoin rival". The Sunday Times. ISSN 0956-1382. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  2. "Ethereum: the competitor to Bitcoin which could transform entire industries". New Statesman. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  3. Post, Claire Brownell Financial (27 June 2017). "Vitalik Buterin: The cryptocurrency prophet | Financial Post". Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  4. Jeffries, Adrianne. "Ethereum hacking continues to be extremely lucrative". The Outline. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  5. Torpey, Kyle (22 April 2016). "Ethcore Raises Financing Round as First Venture Capital Funded..." Bitcoin Magazine. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  6. Dannen, Chris (16 March 2017). Introducing Ethereum and Solidity: Foundations of Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Programming for Beginners. Apress. ISBN 978-1-4842-2535-6.
  7. Magazine, Bitcoin (11 August 2017). "Who Created Ethereum?". Bitcoin Magazine. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  8. Paumgarten, Nick (15 October 2018). "The Prophets of Cryptocurrency Survey the Boom and Bust". ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  9. Shieber, Jonathan (1 November 2017). "The future of Blockchain infrastructure, with Gavin Wood and Jutta Steiner". TechCrunch. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  10. "Ethereum co-founder Dr Gavin Wood and company release Parity Bitcoin". International Business Times UK. 27 April 2017. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
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