Polkadot lists three founders, including co-founder and former Ethereum CTO Gavin Wood. Gavin's track record includes the creation of the Solidity programming language and the Proof-of-Authority consensus mechanism. Gavin Wood has founded and is now part of the Parity Technologies team and leads innovation for Substrate and Polkadot. He is also president of the Web3 Foundation. Another co-founder of the Polkadot team is Oxford graduate Peter Czaban. Peter is the Director of Technology at the Web3 Foundation and his extensive experience includes work not only with blockchain technology, but also in the defense, finance, and data analytics industries. Thiel Fellow and blockchain and cryptography researcher Robert Habermeier is the project's third co-founder and core developer at Parity Technologies. Polkadot was audited bt Atredis in February 2020