Alexey Pajitnov

Alexey Pajitnov is a Russian computer engineer, who developed the popular game Tetris along with Dmitry Pavlovsky and Vadim Gerasimov in 1985-1986. Pajitnov moved to USA in 1991 and founded the Tetris Company with Henk Rogers. He helped design the puzzles in the Super NES versions of Yoshi's Cookie and designed the game Pandora's Box, which incorporates more traditional jigsaw-style puzzles.