Oleksandr Tkachenko

Oleksandr Tkachenko is a skilled software engineer currently working at DFINITY since July 2022, specializing in the cryptography team with a focus on efficiency, performance analysis, and security for the Internet Computer. Prior to this role, Oleksandr served as a research assistant at Technische Universität Darmstadt from January 2016 to June 2022, completing a PhD with distinction on practical secure multi-party computation and its applications. During this period, Oleksandr held several positions, including a student assistant where responsibilities included reimplementing algorithms for Big Data analyses and developing cryptographic algorithms. An internship at Google as a research software engineering intern focused on private information retrieval. Oleksandr's early experiences include student assistant roles at the Fraunhofer Institute and Technische Universität Darmstadt, along with a network engineer position at Provide Ltd. Oleksandr holds a Master of Science in IT-Security from Technische Universität Darmstadt and a Magister in computer-supported control systems and automation from the National Technical University of Kherson.