The team behind the project.
The team at the helm of Polygon (MATIC) is made up of eminent personalities and renowned experts in the fields of blockchain, IT security and cryptography.
Here’s a look at the key players who have helped make Polygon (MATIC) a reality:
Jaynti Kanani,
Sandeep Nailwal and
Anurag Arjun are the founders of Polygon and the protagonists of a series of remarkable entrepreneurial successes accumulated over the past few years.
Jaynti Kanani was born in India, on the outskirts of Ahmedabad.
Jaynti came from a relatively poor background, as his father worked in the mines as a diamond miner.
Despite this, the whole family made sacrifices and went into debt to give Kanani the chance to study and succeed, which he did, as he is now a billionaire entrepreneur.
After completing his secondary education, he attended a prestigious Indian university, Dharmsinh Desai University, where he obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering in 2011.
Unfavorable economic conditions prompted Kanani, after graduation, to immediately devote himself to work as a programmer at Persistent System, during which time he discovered and became interested in blockchain technology and the potential of Bitcoin.
Some time later, he collaborated with startups in the crypto sector and also tried his hand at developing apps to facilitate money transfers around the world.
In 2017, he founded Matic alongside Sandeep Nailwal and Anurag Arjun.
Kanani met and worked with them on various projects, initially sharing the vision of what would become Polygon, and then, in early 2018, they began planning the whole ecosystem together.
Sandeep Nailwal is an Indian entrepreneur, billionaire and software developer, he was the founder of the famous India Crypto Covid Relief Fund, a fund set up in 2021 with the aim of helping the Indian population affected by COVID-19, where donations were made via a specially created multi-signature wallet on the Ethereum blockchain.
Nailwal graduated with an MBA in 2014 with a specialization in supply chain management from the prestigious National Institute of Engineering in Mumbai.
His professional career began as a programmer at Deloitte, one of the « Big4 » companies in the consulting sector.
Between 2015 and 2016, he was CTO and Supply Chain Manager for Welspun Group, an Indian multinational active in the steel, energy and textile sectors.
His entrepreneurial career began shortly afterwards, precisely in early 2016, with the founding of startup ScopeWeaver, which has become India’s largest professional services platform.
In 2017, he became interested in crypto-assets, and in the same year joined the founding team of Matic
(Matic course), where he served as the project’s COO.
Anurag Arjun, also from India (Bengaluru) and also a billionaire thanks to Polygon, is one of the co-founders of this project.
He studied and graduated in computer engineering at the Nirma Institute of Technology. He started his career earlier than his peers, working at Cognizant in 2006, then as Product Manager at Dexter Consulting over the next five years.
His entrepreneurial career began with the creation of HealthTrac and HealthOne, two startups active in the healthcare sector.
The former provides services dedicated to monitoring parameters acquired through wearable devices, while the latter offers specific services for doctors.
Anurag joined Matic in 2017, where he became the product manager and was responsible for developing the project roadmap, managing the team and integrations between Polygon itself and other DApps.
