Slava Yakimenko
Slava Yakimenko is a Developer Relations Manager at TON Foundation. He handles grant applications and interacts with participants and partners. His activities are aimed at increasing TON's recognition and attracting new developers through the organization of technical events.
Telegram: @delovoyslava
Education
Slava studied at Lyceum No. 4 in Taganrog. Already at school age, he engaged in competitive programming and won prizes in mathematics Olympiads. He graduated from high school at the Specialized Academic Scientific Center in Rostov-on-Don, after which he enrolled at ITMO University. He is currently studying at ITMO in the field of «Software Engineering».
Career
TON Foundation (March 2023 — present)
Positions:
- Grant Program Manager (January 2023 — July 2023, internship)
- Intern Devrel Manager (August 2023 — February 2024)
- Developer Relations Manager (March 2024 — present)
Slava began his activity at TON Foundation as an intern, where he was responsible for leading TON Bounties program (previously TON Footsteps). Then he continued his career as an Intern Devrel Manager. Since March 2024, holding the position of Developer Relations Manager, Slava actively manages grant programs, processes applications, and organizes events to support developers, assisting participants in hackathons. He frequently speaks at TON meetups and bootcamps, promoting blockchain knowledge and technologies among developers and enthusiasts.
Awards and Achievements
Slava has received several TON Bounties awards, reflecting his contribution to the development of TON Ecosystem. These awards were formerly known as «TON Footsteps», thus symbolizing the initial steps of participants.
The first award within TON ecosystem, received on May 23, 2022, was TON Bounty Tutorial — Mint a Fungible Token (Jetton) #66. Subsequently, Slava completed several other tasks, for which he also received rewards:
- Articles about «toncli» and «ton storage» #103
- Telegram Bot for TON Developer Community #116
- Create a User-Friendly Config for TON Blockchain #119
- Notifications in Telegram about new footsteps #152
Slava also participated in TON Smart Challenge #3, TON Smart Challenge #4 and TON Tact Challenge.
In addition to TON projects, Slava Yakimenko has participated in many hackathons. One of them was Cyber Garden in 2022, where he was the winner. At the All-Russian conference «Start in Innovation» in the same year, Slava was an awardee with the project «QuickPost — a site for auto posting».