Before creating the multichain interoperability protocol Polkadot, Gavin Wood was one of the co-founders of Ethereum, serving as its chief technology officer. The University of York graduate invented the Solidity programming language and published the yellow paper for the Ethereum Virtual Machine. 

Since leaving the Ethereum project in 2016, Wood has gone on to develop blockchain software company Parity Technologies. He also founded the Web3 Foundation, which is an organization dedicated to popularizing the decentralized internet infrastructure, and Parity, a blockchain infrastructure platform with interoperability enabled by the Polkadot ecosystem.

Before creating the multichain interoperability protocol Polkadot, Gavin Wood was one of the co-founders of Ethereum, serving as its chief technology officer. The University of York graduate invented the Solidity programming language and published the yellow paper for the Ethereum Virtual Machine. 

Since leaving the Ethereum project in 2016, Wood has gone on to develop blockchain software company Parity Technologies. He also founded the Web3 Foundation, which is an organization dedicated to popularizing the decentralized internet infrastructure, and Parity, a blockchain infrastructure platform with interoperability enabled by the Polkadot ecosystem.