You know him as LefterisJP — Lefteris Karapetsas is joining Slock.it as the Lead Technical Engineer for the Ethereum Computer (EC) project.

After graduating from the prestigious University of Tokyo with a Master degree in Engineering, Lefteris has been developing backend software in critical roles for companies including Oracle.

He has been part of Ethereum as a C++ core developer since November 2014, having worked on Solidity, the ethash algorithm, the core client and the CI system.

Lefteris’ love of low level and systems programming, graphics programming, and compiler/interpreter design makes him the perfect candidate to take on the ambitious challenges offered by the EC.

His passions include robotics, machine learning, artificial neural networks, computational creativity and artificial life — and I think it’s fair to say that we’re all a bit jealous of his skills!

You can follow Lefteris on Twitter and of course on Github, his second home.

Welcome, Lefteris.