Launch day photo by Lefteris
This photo was taken by developer Lefteris Karapetsas 9 years ago during Ethereum’s launch day. He went on to found Rotki, a portfolio tracker.
Starting from Vitalik and going clockwise.
Most of these descriptions are from Lefteris’s Twitter post, and I added some notes of my own:
- Vitalik – Just some guy. Currently an Ethereum Researcher.
- Gustav Simonsson – Worked on Ethereum a bit and then went on to Dfinity (ICP)
- Christian Reitwiessner – Creator of Solidity. Lead dev of the C++ team for EF
- Liana Husikyan – Solidity and main dev of Remix
- Christoph Jentsch – Ethereum testing suite. Founder of slockit. Creator of the DAO. Now CEO at Corpus Ventures and Tokenize
- Gavin Wood – Ethereum co-founder, and co-creator of Solidity. Founder of Polkadot. Author of the Ethereum Yellow Paper.
- Vlad Gluchowski – Worked in Whisper.
- Kelley Becker – Was on the project for a very brief time.
- Vlad Zamfir – Ethereum researcher. Lead architect for Ethereum’s Casper consensus protocol.
- Felix Lange – Go Ethereum dev.
- Frithjof Weinert – Was briefly CFO for at EF.
- Fabian Vogelsteller – Ethereum developer mainly focused on web3.js and mist. Now Founder/CEO of LUKSO.
- Aeron Buchanan – Ethereum developer/research. Later went on to work with Gavin to found Parity.
- Lefteris Karapetsas Worked on Solidity compiler and its C++ client at the time. Ethereum developer.
- Jutta Steiner – Ethereum developer. Later went on to work on Parity with Gavin.
- Yann Levreau – Worked on Remix and is still part of the same team.
It’s interesting that several of these went onto work on Polkadot and Parity. Gavin certainly had a lot of early influence.
Other notes:
- Solidity is the main smart contract developer language for Ethereum VM
- Remix is a very popular tool for quickly compiling and deploying EVM smart contracts
