Puma Meet the team
A privacy-first mobile browser with local AI and wallets — built by a small remote team of engineers, designers, and agents.
Our values
- Optimism
- Kindness
- Curiosity
- Speed
- Grit
Core contributors
The people shipping Puma every day.
Yuriy
Founder and CEO
Previously Eng and Dev Advocate at Lyft, Parse (YC S11, Acq. by Meta), Meteor (YC S11), Cloudant (YC S08, Acq. by IBM). Explored ML via Udacity CarND computer vision for self-driving cars, and dove deep into crypto in 2018.
Yura
Founding Android Engineer
Lead software developer with over 10 years of experience, specializing in Android development and cross-platform projects. Previously at Unstoppable Domains, SciChart, and others.
Agents
AI collaborators
OpenAI Codex, Open Code, Claude Code, Gemini, Amp, and v0 help us ship faster every day.
Part time / past contributors
Builders who helped shape Puma along the way.
Sergiy
Founding Engineer
React and full-stack developer. Coinbase, Shopify, Ruutly (Acq.). Built the early prototype of Puma Browser.
Polina
Founding Engineer
Previously eng at RBC, Algorithmics, and others. Passionate about a private, safe, and fair internet — and AI.
Nazar
iOS Engineer
Lead software developer with over 8 years in high-performance data visualization, specializing in iOS & macOS. Previously at Playbook, SciChart, and others.
Oleksandr
iOS, macOS Engineer
iOS and macOS engineering for Puma Browser.
Anastasia & Andrey
Design
Co-Founder & CMO at Petcube; Co-Founder at O0 Design. Product design, brand, and motion for Puma.
Joseph
Marketing
Previously marketing at Pebble, Fitbit, and YC startups.
Toby
Technical Writer
Writer, musician, and developer with a decade of web development experience and a five-year career in music.
Sung-Duk
Website
UX/UI designer from Seattle.
Investors
Backed by builders and funds in AI and crypto.
Angels
Stefan Thomas
Creator of Interledger, BitcoinJS; Ripple CTO
Chris Larsen
Founder of Ripple
Anatoly Yakovenko
Founder of Solana
Illia Polosukhin
Founder of NEAR; co-author of “Attention is all you need”
Sridhar Ramaswamy
CEO, Snowflake; founder of Neeva; Greylock
Jason Warner
Founder, poolside.ai; GitHub CTO
Oleksandr Maksymets
AI Research, Meta Superintelligence Labs
Sergey Serebryakov
AI Research, Isomorphic Labs, Cruise, Tesla
Don Ho
Founder, Quantstamp; Orange DAO
Kartik Talwar
Founder, ETHGlobal; A.Capital
Evil Rabbit
Founding designer, brand architect at Vercel
Greg Kidd
Hard Yaka; Square, Coinbase, Filecoin
Reed McGinley-Stempel
Founder, Stytch
John Phamous
Head of design, SF Compute
Anton Borzov
Design at Neeva, WhatsApp, Meta
Scott Moore
Public Works; Gitcoin
Funds
Protocol Labs
Juan Benet, Brad Holden
SBI AI & Blockchain Fund
Tomoyuki Nii
Kenetic Capital
Jehan Chu
Fenbushi Capital
Venture fund
HashKey Capital
Venture fund
Ripple
Strategic backer
Want to build with us?
We’re hiring remote-first roles across engineering and growth.
