Ilya Zhitomirskiy was a RussianAmerican software developer and entrepreneur. Zhitomirskiy was a cofounder and developer of the Diaspora social network and the Diaspora free software that powers it.
Zhitomirskiy was born onOctober 1989, in Moscow, Soviet Union, to Alexei Medovikov and Inna Zhitomirskaya. Both his father and maternal grandfather are mathematicians. In 2000, his family emigrated to the United States, eventually settling outside Philadelphia, where he graduated from Lower Merion High School in 2007. Zhitomirskiy first attended ActonBoxborough Regional High School in Acton, Massachusetts. He then studied mathematics, economics and computer science at Tulane University, University of Maryland, and New York University. In his free time, Zhitomirskiy unicycled and was a competitive ballroom dancer.
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