Veus has very strong background and team!
Michael J Toutonghi
Lead Developer of Verus is a former Vice President and Technical Fellow at Microsoft, recognized founder and architect of Microsoft's .Net platform, ex-Technical Fellow of Microsoft's advertising platform, ex-CTO, Parallels Corporation, experienced distributed computing and machine learning architect.
jl777 is the lead developer of Komodo, Supernet, Marketmaker behind Barterdex, and a lot more. He's one of, if not the most productive devs in crypto. He's also one of our trusted advisers, and has added an invaluable technical and crypto-veteran perspective to our decision making.
and more:
https://veruscoin.io/about"While many blockchain developers are still cutting their teeth on this technology, the lead developer of Verus has been around for a while. While Mike Toutonghi often shys from the limelight and shuns hype, it is worth telling that he is a seasoned web veteran who led Kernel development on Microsoft 95, and is also one of the founders of Microsofts Java efforts and .Net. Much like his days at Microsoft, where he was adding threads to operating systems where there were none, starting platform efforts that are now used by millions, or architecting data systems for Internet scale advertising, he similarly felt needed to help build the worlds future blockchain infrastructure.
Toutonghi saw that chains needed to talk to each other, that consensus algorithms were not resilient enough, and so began by adding Custom Consensus (smart contracts) to Bitcoin script. The development pioneer went on to modify the core consensus rules and now Toutonghi, alongside his son and dozens of leading developers around the world, are pushing the limits even further, mitigating some of the biggest vulnerabilities and innovating solutions by doing what Toutonghi does best inventing solutions, weaving across layers, and building bridges." https://medium.com/veruscoin/verus-testnet-release-marks-new-advancements-in-crypto-2701bf3e7c3