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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.

Life and career
Korkuna holds a Master's degree in Informatics 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. . He worked at Facebook before joining People.ai in 2019 and becoming a director of engineering.

Non-profit leadership and fundraising
Korkuna co-founded Nova Ukraine in 2014 and remains its volunteer co-chair. In February and March 2022, in the first weeks of Russian invasion of Ukraine, he led street rallies in San Francisco, CA to raise awareness about the situation in Ukraine. Central News Agency (Taiwan) covered these street rallies and interviewed Korkuna. 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. 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. Under Korkuna's leadership, Nova Ukraine raised funds for humanitarian aid for Ukraine and delivered over $50M worth of aid in 2022.

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 and 2023. As a result, Charity Navigator scored Nova Ukraine's leadership and flexibility at 100%.

In 2023, President Volodymyr Zelensky recognized Korkuna's contributions as the cofounder and cochair of Nova Ukraine with the Order of Merit (Ukraine) 3rd degree.