Aleksei Shevchenko is co-founder of arkona technologies Gmbh and co-founder and CEO of manifold technologies GmbH. He started his career in broadcast industry in 1999 at Questech Ltd and Tim Gale Consulting Ltd as development engineer and was involved in the development of various digital effects systems like Charisma X and Chairsma HD. In 2005 he joined Grassvalley where he was involved in the development of XtenDD HD and Indigo vision mixers. In 2010 he founded together with colleagues from Grassvalley arkona technologies GmbH where they developed various video/ip OEM products known in the market under Lawo brand. In 2022 he founded together with colleagues from arkona technologies Gmbh one more company manifold technologies GmbH to explore applications of COTS FPGA accelerators in the broadcast industry.