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Elena Nadolinski is a software developer and engineer. In 2019, she founded the company Iron Fish (first known as Beanstalk Network.) She is also the CEO. Iron Fish is a privacy-first cryptocurrency company.
Nadolinski grew up in Volgograd, Russia. She attended Virginia Tech from 2011 to 2014 and graduated with a bachelor of science in computer science.
Nadolinski held several internships as a software developer throughout her college years, mainly with Microsoft but also with Rackspace Hosting and Heyo. Eventually, in 2015, she became a software engineer at Microsoft, where she stayed for one year. There she worked on a feature for Cortana, Microsoft's virtual assistant on the Windows 10 operating system. Following that, she worked at Tilt.com until February 2017, when the company was acquired by Airbnb, at which point she began working as a software engineer for Airbnb. She was a back-end engineer responsible for building the company website's autocomplete search service. She worked there until June 2018.
In 2019, Nadolinski founded Beanstalk Network, a crypto company later launched as Iron Fish. Iron Fish is a cryptocurrency designed on privacy needs. It uses zk-SNARKs and the Sapling protocol to protect each transaction. On April 6, 2021, Iron Fish entered its first public testnet phase, enabling anyone to mine Iron Fish nodes.
Nadolinski was featured on Forbes's 30 Under 30 - Finance 2022 list. Nadolinski has an interest in cryptocurrency. She attended her first ETHGlobal hackathon in 2017. Besides coding, Nadolinski enjoys creating jewelry out of salvaged electronics, which she sells at women-in-tech events and in her Etsy store.
