Ostap Korkuna
Ostap Korkuna (Ukrainian:Остап Коркуна; born 26 September 1987 in Lviv) is a Ukrainian American software engineer and executive, co-founder and co-chair of the humanitarian nonprofit organization Nova Ukraine in the San Francisco Bay Area.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
Life and Career
Korkuna holds a Master's degree in Applied Mathematics from Lviv National University in Ukraine, which he represented at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals in 2008, ranking fourth and winning Gold.[7]. He worked at Facebook[8] before joining People.ai in 2019[9] and becoming a director of engineering.[10]
Non-profit Leadership and Fundraising
Korkuna co-founded Nova Ukraine in 2014 and remains its volunteer co-chair.[11] In February and March 2022, in the first weeks of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, he led street rallies in San Francisco, CA to raise awareness about the situation in Ukraine.[1][2] Voice of America Ukraine produced and aired a TV program that covered the history of Nova Ukraine and prominently featured its co-chairs, Bilogorskiy and Korkuna.[4][5] Finland's newspaper of record Helsingin Sanomat Daily explained how Nova Ukraine used technology to scale operations and fundraising, and published profiles and photographs of each Nova Ukraine director, including Korkuna.[6] Under Korkuna's leadership, Nova Ukraine raised funds for humanitarian aid for Ukraine and delivered over $50M worth of aid in 2022.[12]
As part of Charity Navigator's review of Nova Ukraine, Korkuna answered a variety of questions about the operation and accomplishments of Nova Ukraine in two recorded interviews in 2022[13] and 2023[14]. As a result, Charity Navigator scored Nova Ukraine's leadership and flexibility at 100%.[15]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Katsuyama, Jana (February 17, 2022). "Bay Area nonprofits worry Russia might be targeting humanitarian aid workers". Fox KTVU.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Narayanan, Shwanika (March 9, 2022). "'Get out of Ukraine right now.' Bay Area Ukrainians angry, frightened for families as Russia invades". San Francisco Chronicle.
- ↑ "Nova Ukraine ; This Week in California News". KQED. NPR. May 4, 2022.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Khrystyna Shevchenko (September 10, 2022). ""Історія масштабного благодійного фонду NOVA Ukraine з Каліфорнії"". YouTube (in українська). Voice of America. Retrieved 2023-07-02.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Khrystyna Shevchenko. "Nova Ukraine Featured on Voice of America News". YouTube (in українська and English). Retrieved 2023-07-02.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Larsen, Senja (2022-11-28). "Teknologia | Maailmassa on käynnissä ensimmäinen avoimen lähdekoodin sota, sanoo ukrainalainen Piilaakso-johtaja". Helsingin Sanomat (in suomi). Retrieved 2023-07-02.
- ↑ "AMC ICPC 2008 World Finals". Competitive Programming Hall of Fame. Retrieved May 27, 2023.
- ↑ "Facebook Representatives Held the Meeting with KhPI Students". Kharkiv Polytechnical Institute. August 11, 2017.
- ↑ "Starting the People.AI Engineering Blog". Medium. July 19, 2019.
- ↑ "Ostap Korkuna at People.AI Engineering". Medium. Retrieved May 27, 2023.
- ↑ "Nova Ukraine Board of Directors". Nova Ukraine. 18 April 2022. Retrieved May 27, 2023.
- ↑ "Nova Ukraine delivers more than $50M of aid to Ukraine in 2022". PR Newswire. December 19, 2022.
- ↑ Scally, Kevin (September 2022). "Ukraine Relief Efforts : Nova Ukraine". YouTube. Charity Navigator.
- ↑ Scally, Kevin (April 2023). "Ukraine One Year Later : Nova Ukraine". YouTube. Charity Navigator.
- ↑ "Nova Ukraine | Charity Navigator Profile". www.charitynavigator.org. Retrieved 2023-07-02.
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