Dr. John Plevyak is a seasoned Silicon Valley innovator with a Ph.D. in distributed systems from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He has extensive experience in various technological fields, ranging from compilers for supercomputers and nuclear power monitoring software to blockchain, graph databases, virtual worlds, video editing and special effects, AI and fact-checking.

Dr. Plevyak has contributed his expertise to renowned organizations such as Google, Inktomi, Cray, the DFINITY Foundation, Ampex, and NASA, among others.

When not working on cutting-edge technology, Dr. Plevyak enjoys reading the latest research or diving into a good piece of fiction. He resides in San Francisco.