And CrowdStrike co-founder is Russian.  The irony (The DOJ and FBI rely on a Russian-founded company to accuse Trump of colluding with the Russians.) Dmitri Alperovitch is co-founder and chief technology officer of CrowdStrike.  Alperovitch was born in Moscow in 1980. In 1990, his parents moved to Maryland for a nuclear safety training program, but he stayed behind in the USSR — by law — to make sure his parents did not defect.