Stas Kelvich is an accomplished technology professional with extensive experience in software development, engineering, and research. As the Co-Founder of Neon, Inc. since March 2021, Stas has leveraged prior experience as a Software Engineer at Yandex and Postgres Professional, where significant contributions included the development of a fault-tolerant replication mechanism for Postgres and work with the Yandex database team. Stas co-founded Mimimir, an online shop and search engine for package tours, and held software development roles at Beanovision Productions and Yabamedia, focusing on game development and file hosting solutions. Educationally, Stas holds both a Master's and Bachelor's degree in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics from the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, with research contributions published in Physical Review A.