Anatoliy Makosov is one of the core developers of TON (The Open Network)
Nickname is tolya-yanot
Ten-time winner of Telegram public contests for developers. According to the results of one of the competitions in 2019, tolya-yanot takes 1st place and bypasses 560 other participants, fitting the solution into 4 kilobytes.
Having started his career in game development, he worked on browser-based MMORPGs and popular games with tens of millions of users around the world, and later came to the blockchain, having a hand in many popular crypto projects.
Anatoliy Makosov and Kirill Emelianenko (another one developer of TON) met at the TON Blockchain Contests, which was held by the Telegram team in 2019, where both took first places. Together with Kirill Emelianenko, he took part in the development of the Orion Protocol, a well-known DEX & CEX aggregation protocol.