Season 6 Nominations: Developer Advisory Board

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Season 6 Nominations: Developer Advisory Board

Please post your self-nominations for the Season 6 Developer Advisory Board here, according to the template and process outlined here. There are five elected positions open on this Board in Season 6, according to the approved Charter.

Nominations must have been posted on this thread by 19:00 GMT on Wednesday, June 5th.

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Developer Advisory Board Nomination

If you are a delegate, please provide the link to your delegate profile: I am not a delegate

If you are a delegate, please indicate what % of votable supply is delegated to you: (voting power can be referenced here): N/A

If you are a delegate, please indicate your voting participation rate in OP governance to date: (You may link to your profile on Karma, if applicable.): N/A

Please link to your voting history and any voting rationale youā€™ve shared: (You may link to your Snapshot and/or Agora profile for voting history. You may link to your delegate communication thread, or any other medium you use to communicate with your delegators, to share your voting rationale.): N/A

Are you a representative of OP Labs: I am not a representative of OP Labs

Please elaborate on your technical background. Please include information about the layer of the stack you have the most expertise on:

I have spent my entire career working on low level systems and their security. Starting with my masters thesis breaking VPNs with tropical algebra, to spending two years working on the state of art automated market makers and ethereum core infrastructure, to now working on applied zero knowledge cryptography. I primarily work in rust and am interested in the intersection of mathematics, computer science, and philosophy. Anyone is welcome to view my technical contributions here: 0xJepsen (Waylon Jepsen) Ā· GitHub

Please demonstrate any non-Optimism experience you believe is relevant to this role:

I spent the past three years working on ethereum applications and studying the security of their properties. I spent time building security tools for automated market makers and EVM sandboxes to understand economic security properties of decentralized financial mechanisms.

Have you previously served in a representative (appointed or elected) role in the Collective? If so, please specify which:

I had the honor to serve last season on the first round of candidates in the Developer Advisory Board.

Please outline your contributions, and their impact, to the Optimism ecosystem to date:

As mentioned above I served on the DAB last season where the board members and I evaluated the technical merit of different grant recipients in the optimism ecosystem.

Please describe your philosophy on what makes a good Mission Application:

A good mission application application should clearly contribute to the specified intent. The mission request should have a strong and clear understanding on the quantity of work needed to fulfill the mission. The amount of OP requested should be proportional to the work and impact.

Please demonstrate your ability to explain complex technical topics to a non-technical audience:

My experience in graduate school teaching computer science and math has taught me that communication of complex ideas requires a high amount of empathy. I find a great amount of fulfillment is helping people understand different topics and ideas. If the smartest person in the world is right next to you but cannot explain any of their ideas, then their brilliance is lost. I have authored a number of technical written pieces that can be found on my github aimed at readers with varying levels of technical background. Most recently was an audit of the Poseidon hash function with a grant from the Ethereum Foundation. If any self considered non-technical reviewers of this nomination are curious they are welcome to read any of my work and evaluate my abilities to communicate technical information.

Please disclose any anticipated conflicts of interest: If you are a top 25 delegate in another ecosystem, hold an elected position in another DAO, and/or are a multisig signer in another community please disclose here.

I do not hold any other positions other than my work as a staff engineer at an applied cryptography company.

Please verify that you understand you may be removed from this role via the Representative Removal proposal type in the Operating Manual:

I understand that I may be removed from this role via the Representative Removal proposal type in the Operating Manual:.

Are you interested in the Ops Lead or Upgrade Czar roles? If so, please share relevant experience and one idea you have for how the role could contribute to the collective.
I would be more than happy to contribute as an Ops Lead or Upgrade Czar. Last season I wrote a non technical summary for the OP Collective on upgrade [FINAL] Protocol Upgrade #8: Guardian, Security Council Threshold and L2 ProxyAdmin Ownership changes for Stage 1 Decentralization - #10 by Jepsen. In any case i am happy to contribute in whatever way the Collective thinks is best.

Please verify that you understand KYC will be required to receive Council rewards at the end of Season 6:

I understand KYC will be required to receive council rewards at the end of Season 6.

Please verify that you are able to commit ~20 hours / month to Board operations:

I am able to commit 2o hours a month to the board operations.

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Developer Advisory Board Self-Nomination Template

Please keep your answers as concise as possible while conveying all relevant information.

If you are a delegate, please provide the link to your delegate profile:

n/a

If you are a delegate, please indicate what % of votable supply is delegated to you:

n/a

If you are a delegate, please indicate your voting participation rate in OP governance to date:

n/a

Please link to your voting history and any voting rationale youā€™ve shared: (You may link to your Snapshot and/or Agora profile for voting history. You may link to your delegate communication thread, or any other medium you use to communicate with your delegators, to share your voting rationale.)

n/a

Are you a representative of OP Labs:

n/a

Please elaborate on your technical background. Please include information about the layer of the stack you have the most expertise on:

I got here the long way:

  • I left my Wall Street job disgusted with TradFi and became a nomad in Southeast Asia where I paid for my street food by writing scripts to arb the NYSE open (the original MEV iykyk)
  • I worked as a webdev, backend eng for a bit, got bored, found crypto - new life
  • Was a protocol eng at Yield with Mr. Alcueca who stoked my interest in security from the start
  • Somehow found myself hanging out with an odd group of characters that called themselves ā€œHuffoorsā€ - Once I got Huff-pilled I started Huff-pilling others and thatā€™s how I earned the title of Chief Pharmacist at Huff :pill:
  • Transitioned fully into security, did a lot of security reviews for several different organizations over the last couple years, now Iā€™m independent
  • Most comfortable in the application layer, decent exposure to the consensus layer

Optimism is my favorite chain. I still dev passion projects and OSS. When I need to deploy anything it goes on OP Mainnet - most recent thing I deployed is the admin contracts for the Huffathon CTF challenges.

Please demonstrate any non-Optimism experience you believe is relevant to this role:

I think primarily my protocol dev, smart contract security, and EVM low-level experience is the most relevant to this role.

Have you previously served in a representative (appointed or elected) role in the Collective? If so, please specify which:

No, I was asked previously but unable to commit at that time.

Please outline your contributions, and their impact, to the Optimism ecosystem to date:

My contributions have primarily been as a user and dev on the chain. I keep up to date technically on Optimism through my relationships with some of the core dev and security team. I am super bullish on the ecosystem, mostly because of the people behind it.

Please describe your philosophy on what makes a good Mission Application:

As much as I like cool and experimental, the project needs to be first and foremost useful and beneficial to community and the future of the ecosystem. Strongly aligned with Collective intent. And of course, security of must be a top priority - definitely worthy of mentioning during the application process.

Please demonstrate your ability to explain complex technical topics to a non-technical audience:

Exhibit A, watch as I masterfully describe the inner-workings of the EVM and the basics of Huff language to a rowdy group of middle-schoolers.

As autistic as I am, I can actually communicate when I put my mind to it, at least thatā€™s the feedback Iā€™ve gotten from others.

Please disclose any anticipated conflicts of interest: If you are a top 25 delegate in another ecosystem, hold an elected position in another DAO, and/or are a multisig signer in another community please disclose here.

Good news, no conflicts!

Please verify that you understand you may be removed from this role via the Representative Removal proposal type in the Operating Manual

:saluting_face:

Please verify that you understand KYC will be required to receive Council rewards at the end of Season 6:

:saluting_face:

Please verify that you are able to commit ~7 hours / week to Board operations:

Iā€™m unemployed, I can commit 70 hours / week.

BONUS QUESTION: Are you interested in the Ops Lead or Upgrade Czar roles? If so, please share relevant experience and one idea you have for how the role could contribute to the collective.

I have strengths that lend themselves to Ops Lead and I would be interested in helping out with that.

  • I often serve as lead on projects I am involved with which has given me a lot of experience with scheduling, interfacing, and project organization in general. I was the lead organizer of the Huffathon last Fall which really put these skills to the test but resulted in success.
  • Wrt spreadsheets, I am a former professional competitive spreadsheeter - Like most boomers, I live and die by spreadsheets
  • As for process improvements, those who know me know that this is something I am extremely passionate about: process improvement, effectiveness, efficiency. Even if not selected as an Ops Lead I would love to be involved and help out with this.
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Developer Advisory Board Self-Nomination Template

Please keep your answers as concise as possible while conveying all relevant information.

If you are a delegate, please provide the link to your delegate profile:

If you are a delegate, please indicate what % of votable supply is delegated to you: (voting power can be referenced here)

If you are a delegate, please indicate your voting participation rate in OP governance to date: (You may link to your profile on Karma, if applicable.)

Please link to your voting history and any voting rationale youā€™ve shared: (You may link to your Snapshot and/or Agora profile for voting history. You may link to your delegate communication thread, or any other medium you use to communicate with your delegators, to share your voting rationale.)

Are you a representative of OP Labs:

No

Please elaborate on your technical background. Please include information about the layer of the stack you have the most expertise on:

I am an engineer at Coinbase where I lead protocol development and blockchain scaling within the Base team. I am a core contributor to the OP stack, with contributions spanning the monorepo, op-geth, and (op-)reth.

Please demonstrate any non-Optimism experience you believe is relevant to this role:

My work at Coinbase over the past 2.5 years has been focused on getting our users onchain.

Have you previously served in a representative (appointed or elected) role in the Collective? If so, please specify which:

Please outline your contributions, and their impact, to the Optimism ecosystem to date:

I led much of the work that culminated in the Ecotone Superchain upgrade and am currently driving much of the next upgrade, Fjord. Ecotone included the activation of blobs for transaction batching, which reduced transaction fees by up to 90x.

Please describe your philosophy on what makes a good Mission Application:

A good mission application is one which clearly articulates its benefits to the ecosystem and paves a credible path towards delivering impact.

Please demonstrate your ability to explain complex technical topics to a non-technical audience:

I regularly appear on podcasts and speak to the press about Base engineering accomplishments, with the goal of making them accessible for non or less-technical audiences. Some examples here.

Please disclose any anticipated conflicts of interest: If you are a top 25 delegate in another ecosystem, hold an elected position in another DAO, and/or are a multisig signer in another community please disclose here.

Please verify that you understand you may be removed from this role via the Representative Removal proposal type in the Operating Manual :

I understand I may be removed from this role as outlined.

Please verify that you understand KYC will be required to receive Council rewards at the end of Season 6:

I understand KYC will be required to receive Council rewards.

Please verify that you are able to commit ~7 hours / week to Board operations:

I am able to commit ~7 hours/week.

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Developer Advisory Board Self-Nomination Template

Please keep your answers as concise as possible while conveying all relevant information.

If you are a delegate, please provide the link to your delegate profile: No, I am not a delegate.

If you are a delegate, please indicate what % of votable supply is delegated to you: (voting power can be referenced here): N/A

If you are a delegate, please indicate your voting participation rate in OP governance to date: (You may link to your profile on Karma, if applicable.): N/A

Please link to your voting history and any voting rationale youā€™ve shared: (You may link to your Snapshot and/or Agora profile for voting history. You may link to your delegate communication thread, or any other medium you use to communicate with your delegators, to share your voting rationale.): N/A

Are you a representative of OP Labs: No, I am not a representative of OP Labs.

Please elaborate on your technical background. Please include information about the layer of the stack you have the most expertise on:

I am an engineer at Chainbound and I am strongly passioned about distributed systems. My work has been focusing on building & improving Fiber, a global high-speed blockchain distribution network for transactions and blocks, and building Echo, a unified API for propagating MEV bundles quickly to Ethereum block builders. Before that, I spent 1.5 years working as smart contract & backend engineer building DeFi applications. In terms of OP Stack-specific experience, I am a contributor to both OP-Reth and Magi, the Rust clients that are becoming increasingly critical to realize Optimismā€™s scalability & performance roadmap. Please check out my Github: merklefruit (nicolas) Ā· GitHub and website: https://nico.bio.

Please demonstrate any non-Optimism experience you believe is relevant to this role:

In the past 3 years I had the chance to work across the Ethereum stack, from the application layer to the core infrastructure layer. This has been incredibly useful in keeping the full context of how different components interact and their role in the Ethereum protocol.

Have you previously served in a representative (appointed or elected) role in the Collective? If so, please specify which:

No, I have never served any role in the Optimism Collective.

Please outline your contributions, and their impact, to the Optimism ecosystem to date:

I contributed to the first version of OP-Reth, an OP-Stack execution client written in Rust. OP-Reth is now looking to become a critical component of the OP Stack scaling roadmap.

As a testament to this, here is a quote from the recent Worldcoin OP-Chain announcement: ā€œWe also think that L2s allow for a new trade-off space and we want to actively explore this with Reth as a L2 native execution client. While starting out on op-geth, our next immediate goal therefore is to switch to OP-Reth in productionā€.

Additionally, I contributed several features to Magi, an OP Stack rollup client written in Rust. One of the contributions included adding the ā€œcheckpoint syncā€ mode, which reduced node sync times up to 5x compared to full sync under normal loads.

Please describe your philosophy on what makes a good Mission Application:

Mission applications should always have a clearly stated objective and description, and should include as much context as necessary to give a good grasp of whether the effort required matches the OP tokens requested.

Please demonstrate your ability to explain complex technical topics to a non-technical audience:

I enjoy writing about the topics Iā€™m passionate about! A couple examples here, here and here.

Please disclose any anticipated conflicts of interest: If you are a top 25 delegate in another ecosystem, hold an elected position in another DAO, and/or are a multisig signer in another community please disclose here.

No, I do not hold any other positions in any ecosystem, DAO or community.

Please verify that you understand you may be removed from this role via the Representative Removal proposal type in the Operating Manual:

I understand.

Please verify that you understand KYC will be required to receive Council rewards at the end of Season 6:

I understand.

Are you interested in the Ops Lead or Upgrade Czar roles? If so, please share relevant experience and one idea you have for how the role could contribute to the collective.

No, I am not interested.

Please verify that you are able to commit ~20 hours / month to Board operations:

I am able to commit 20 hours a month to the board operations.

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Developer Advisory Board Self-Nomination Template

Please keep your answers as concise as possible while conveying all relevant information.

If you are a delegate, please provide the link to your delegate profile:
n/a
If you are a delegate, please indicate what % of votable supply is delegated to you:
n/a
If you are a delegate, please indicate your voting participation rate in OP governance to date:
n/a
Please link to your voting history and any voting rationale youā€™ve shared:
n/a
Are you a representative of OP Labs:

No

Please elaborate on your technical background. Please include information about the layer of the stack you have the most expertise on:

  • I am Head of Security at Immunefi
  • I teach Advanced Solidity Bootcamp at RareSkills

Previously:

  • I studied aerospace engineering.
  • I worked as an IoT and embedded systems engineer; then transitioned to Backend and Analytics at a major European bank; then worked in Digital TV in a major Portuguese IT company; then I transitioned to Web3.
  • I served as a smart contract engineer in previous endeavour, as well as having provided security services independently and through ThreeSigma.
  • I taught Blockchain Fundamentals and Solidity courses to companies, leading up to my current teaching at RareSkills. Iā€™ve also built many quests for Node Guardians.
  • I received the Immunefi Whitehat Scholarship, leading up to becoming a smart contract triager, smart contract lead and now head of security.

Please demonstrate any non-Optimism experience you believe is relevant to this role:

In general, both my experience in advanced teaching and in security services, as well as a lot of development from embedded systems to smart contracts, are relevant for this role.

Have you previously served in a representative (appointed or elected) role in the Collective? If so, please specify which:

No.

Please outline your contributions, and their impact, to the Optimism ecosystem to date:

Through my work at Immunefi, Iā€™ve facilitated the responsible disclosure of multiple vulnerabilities found both on Optimism as well as in protocols within the Optimism ecosystem, part of the reason why we went on to receive an OP grant to boost Optimism ecosystem bug bounties.

Other than that, I did help create the Optimism Cannon quests for Node Guardians, which are a phenomenal way of better understanding fault proofs.

Please describe your philosophy on what makes a good Mission Application:

The customer is first, and in this case the community and the ecosystem are the customers. Whatever it aligns with the overall OP community mission is what should be built. A good Mission Application is clear and accessible, with no unnecessary complications, and it is impact-driven.

Please demonstrate your ability to explain complex technical topics to a non-technical audience:

Both my current RareSkills teaching work and my previous one makes this clear. Iā€™ve presented complex topics on security and solidity at TrustX, Solidity Summit, EthDam, and will be doing the same in future opportunities. I can also do it in written form, as seen in my article on Soladyā€™s ERC1967Proxy, or my article on 0xbadcodeā€™s hack.

Please disclose any anticipated conflicts of interest: If you are a top 25 delegate in another ecosystem, hold an elected position in another DAO, and/or are a multisig signer in another community please disclose here.

No.

Please verify that you understand you may be removed from this role via the Representative Removal proposal type in the Operating Manual:

I understand I may be removed from this role as outlined.

Please verify that you understand KYC will be required to receive Council rewards at the end of Season 6:

I understand KYC will be required to receive Council rewards.

Please verify that you are able to commit ~20 hours / month to Board operations:

I am able to commit ~20 hours/month.

Are you interested in the Ops Lead or Upgrade Czar roles? If so, please share relevant experience and one idea you have for how the role could contribute to the collective.

Iā€™m interested in contributing in whichever role.

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@Jepsen @devtooligan @gmhacker @bayardo @merklefruit Amazing applications, thank you all.

We just added one more question to the template:

Are you interested in the Ops Lead or Upgrade Czar roles? If so, please share relevant experience and one idea you have for how the role could contribute to the collective.

If youā€™re interested in either of these roles, please edit your application to include an answer to this question.

:pray:

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Developer Advisory Board Self-Nomination

If you are a delegate, please provide the link to your delegate profile:

N/A

If you are a delegate, please indicate what % of votable supply is delegated to you:

N/A

If you are a delegate, please indicate your voting participation rate in OP governance to date:

N/A

Please link to your voting history and any voting rationale youā€™ve shared:

N/A

Are you a representative of OP Labs:

No.

Please elaborate on your technical background. Please include information about the layer of the stack you have the most expertise on:

Please demonstrate any non-Optimism experience you believe is relevant to this role:

  • My engineering & EVM experience listed above are my main qualification.

Have you previously served in a representative (appointed or elected) role in the Collective? If so, please specify which:

  • Iā€™m an Optimism badgeholder since RetroPGF 3.

Please outline your contributions, and their impact, to the Optimism ecosystem to date:

Iā€™m also generally keen to be a lot more involved in Optimism governance going forward, and hope to demonstrate a strong commitment starting in this seasonā€™s DAB.

Please describe your philosophy on what makes a good Mission Application:

A good mission application should:

  • make clear its relevance to an intent,
  • have a well-formed token distribution plan, and
  • have clear milestones to hold teams accountable.

Please demonstrate your ability to explain complex technical topics to a non-technical audience:

  • Writing user-facing documentation every day!
  • Tutored multiple students with no code background in Javascript and Solidity.
  • Speaker at PHL Blockchain meetup.
  • Former English major. :upside_down_face:

Please disclose any anticipated conflicts of interest: If you are a top 25 delegate in another ecosystem, hold an elected position in another DAO, and/or are a multisig signer in another community please disclose here.

No conflicts of interest.

Please verify that you understand you may be removed from this role via the Representative Removal proposal type in the Operating Manual 1:

Understood & verified.

Are you interested in the Ops Lead or Upgrade Czar roles? If so, please share relevant experience and one idea you have for how the role could contribute to the collective.

Iā€™m interested in the Ops Lead role as described in Zachā€™s proposal. I often PM on client projects, and this organizational skill could serve the Ops Lead role well. My DAB budget proposal (Ed Mazurek - Developer Advisory Board Operating Budget) outlined some ideas on improving DAB transparency, including more Grants Council outreach and forums communication. One that Iā€™d like to pull forward is the maintaining of public updates on forum and monthly solicitation of feedback from Grants Council. I think these ideas and others from my proposal could fit well within the roleā€™s description, and Iā€™d be really happy to take on driving comms and scheduling for the board.

Please verify that you understand KYC will be required to receive Council rewards at the end of Season 6:

Understood & verified.

Please verify that you are able to commit ~20 hours / month to Board operations:

Yes, am able!

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If you are a delegate, please provide the link to your delegate profile:

I am not a delegate.

If you are a delegate, please indicate what % of votable supply is delegated to you:

N/A

If you are a delegate, please indicate your voting participation rate in OP governance to date:

N/A

Please link to your voting history and any voting rationale youā€™ve shared:

N/A

Are you a representative of OP Labs:

I am not a representative of OP Labs.

Please elaborate on your technical background. Please include information about the layer of the stack you have the most expertise on:

My primary expertise is in smart contract engineering and the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). Notable open source contributions include the following.

Formal employment experience includes the following.

Please demonstrate any non-Optimism experience you believe is relevant to this role:

Aside from experience with the EVM, I am proficient with a wide variety of programming languages, have extensively studied fields of computer science and mathematics relevant to front-end compiler design, have experience in web and mobile development, and regularly write technical content relating to abstract algebra, smart contract execution environments, and type theory (omitting self-plug, but happy to link if requested).

Have you previously served in a representative (appointed or elected) role in the Collective?

I have not.

Please outline your contributions, and their impact, to the Optimism ecosystem to date:

Aside from open source contributions in the broader Optimism and Ethereum space, I have not contributed to Optimism directly; the Developer Advisory Board position, if elected, will mark the start of direct contributions to the Optimism ecosystem.

Please describe your philosophy on what makes a good Mission Application:

A good mission application should be reasonably concise, provide relevant context, and clearly state the scope and specification of the project. Contribution to the specified intent is a necessity, but other desirable features include reasonable simplicity, manageable timelines, and concrete milestones.

Please demonstrate your ability to explain complex technical topics to a non-technical audience:

Experience in breaking down complex topics to a nontechnical audience comes from my blog posts and long form posts on social media as well as my developer relations position at Superfluid, generally speaking with new and learning developers.

To demonstrate, my strategy in breaking down complex topics is broadly akin to the following:

  1. Decide the scope of assumed knowledge, make this explicit in the introduction.
  2. Any prerequisite, but not assumed, knowledge is described before its application.
  3. Any acronyms, abbreviations, or jargon terms are explained once on its first use.
    a. Any aliases or variants are explicitly listed at the definition.
    b. All further use of the terms in the article must match the listed words and aliases exactly.
  4. Abstract concepts should include explicit, simple, unambiguous examples with a clear intuitive progression toward the abstract structures.
  5. Use reasonable terminology with the intent to convey meaning rather than demonstrate prowess.
  6. Context Context Context.

Please disclose any anticipated conflicts of interest:

There are no conflicts of interest, nor do I anticipate any; though in the event of a conflict of interest, I commit to disclosing it as soon as possible when it is realized.

Please verify that you understand you may be removed from this role via the Representative Removal proposal type in the Operating Manual :

I understand I may be removed from this role via the Representative Removal proposal type in the Operating Manual.

Are you interested in the Ops Lead or Upgrade Czar roles?

I am not.

Please verify that you understand KYC will be required to receive Council rewards at the end of Season 6:

I understand KYC will be required to receive Council rewards at the end of Season 6.

Please verify that you are able to commit ~20 hours / month to Board operations:

I am able to commit at least 20 hours per month to Board operations.

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Developer Advisory Board Nomination

If you are a delegate, please provide the link to your delegate profile:

Not a delegate.

If you are a delegate, please indicate what % of votable supply is delegated to you:

N/A

If you are a delegate, please indicate your voting participation rate in OP governance to date:

N/A

Please link to your voting history and any voting rationale youā€™ve shared:

N/A

Are you a representative of OP Labs:

Not a representative.

Please elaborate on your technical background. Please include information about the layer of the stack you have the most expertise on:

I have 6 years of professional experience as a software engineer working at companies of various sizes. Iā€™ve been mostly involved in the design and implementation of backend systems, and the last 2 years were focused mainly on blockchain.

My notable contributions include:

I mainly work in Rust, with previous experience in Go. That allows me to freely read codebases in both languages.

Please demonstrate any non-Optimism experience you believe is relevant to this role:

Before blockchain, I had 4 years of experience building backend systems at web2 companies, and I see this experience as crucial and relevant for my current occupation. It helps to come up with solutions and see the patterns beyond whatā€™s specific to decentralized systems, as well as apply general software engineering knowledge in areas such as databases, performance optimizations, and networking.

My interest in blockchain started with contributing to Foundry. Soon I got a job at Rainbow to work on the intersection of web2 and web3 engineering problems. After Rainbow, I joined the Reth team where I work since then, contributing to the Ethereum L1 protocol and OP Stack client development.

Have you previously served in a representative (appointed or elected) role in the Collective?

No.

Please outline your contributions, and their impact, to the Optimism ecosystem to date:

  • Reth
    • Reth has native support for Optimism and OP Stack chains in the same repo as the main codebase.
    • OP-Reth is the go-to choice for high-performance OP Stack chains, and projects such as Worldcoin and Base are choosing it to reach their scalability goals.
    • I work on the main Reth codebase, and all performance, safety and reliability improvements are propagated directly to the users of OP-Reth.
  • Rainbow

Please describe your philosophy on what makes a good Mission Application:

Clear, concise description that conveys:

  • Why this particular team is capable of delivering the project.
  • How the team is going to solve the problem and if there are any potential unresolved questions/issues. What technical challenges will require any assistance.
  • Why the proposed solution is the most optimal way to solve this problem. What alternatives exist, and why they might not be as effective.
  • If and why, any upfront funding is necessary for achieving any of the milestones.

Please demonstrate your ability to explain complex technical topics to a non-technical audience:

Reth had an issue with the internal database engine that took a while to figure out. I outlined the issue on GitHub and explained the solution in a more accessible for less technical users Twitter thread.

Please disclose any anticipated conflicts of interest:

No conflicts of interest.

Please verify that you understand you may be removed from this role via the Representative Removal proposal type in the Operating Manual:

I understand I may be removed from this role via the Representative Removal proposal type.

Are you interested in the Ops Lead or Upgrade Czar roles?

Not interested.

Please verify that you understand KYC will be required to receive Council rewards at the end of Season 6:

I understand KYC will be required to receive Council rewards at the end of Season 6.

Please verify that you are able to commit ~20 hours / month to Board operations:

I am able to commit ~20 hours / month to Board operations.

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Developer Advisory Board Self-Nomination Template

If you are a delegate, please provide the link to your delegate profile: N/A (I am not a delegate)

If you are a delegate, please indicate what % of votable supply is delegated to you: N/A (see the above)

If you are a delegate, please indicate your voting participation rate in OP governance to date: N/A (see the above)

Please link to your voting history and any voting rationale youā€™ve shared: N/A (see the above)

Are you a representative of OP Labs: I am not a representative of OP Labs.

Please elaborate on your technical background. Please include information about the layer of the stack you have the most expertise on:

My technical background is in smart contract development & security, specializing in architecting & developing efficient and robust smart contract systems. I have worked extensively as a security researcher working with security firms such as Spearbit as an SR and independently participating in some competitive ā€œauditsā€ (on Code4Rena).

These days I mainly focus on the development side of smart contracts, working with very low-level code (assembly, huff), developing dev tooling and creating educational content for other devs on social media.

You can find more on my github and twitter.

Please demonstrate any non-Optimism experience you believe is relevant to this role:

As described above I have extensive experience as a security researcher (aka ā€œAuditorā€) at Quantstamp as a senior security researcher and Spearbit as an SR. I believe that a lot of the experience being a security researcher translates well to this role as the job of an auditor, is quite similar: to review and evaluate projects on their technical merit the main difference being the criteria you use to evaluate projects.

Have you previously served in a representative (appointed or elected) role in the Collective? If so, please specify which:

Iā€™ve served as a DAB member in Season 5.

Please outline your contributions, and their impact, to the Optimism ecosystem to date:

I do not have direct contributions to the ecosystem beyond my development of not directly related public goods and the aforementioned participation as a DAB member in the previous season.

Please describe your philosophy on what makes a good Mission Application:

It should be a concise description of the applicationā€™s intent. The application should explain its reasoning for why it serves Optimismā€™s goals and how it plans to reach them. It should avoid fluff, and hand-wavy language and overall be clear how, why and what the application aims to achieve.

Please demonstrate your ability to explain complex technical topics to a non-technical audience:

Based on the target audience I break down the technical topics Iā€™m explaining into analogies and bridging concepts. You can find examples of my technical writing inmy blog or in threads (example 1, example 2).

Please disclose any anticipated conflicts of interest: I do not anticipate any conflicts of interest.

Please verify that you understand you may be removed from this role via the Representative Removal proposal type in the Operating Manual:

I understand I may be removed from this role via the Representative Removal proposal type.

Are you interested in the Ops Lead or Upgrade Czar roles?

Iā€™d like to continue to be a ā€œnormalā€ board member and not have an extended role as I feel that the more restricted set of responsibilities better fits the time commitment Iā€™m able to accomodate.

Please verify that you understand KYC will be required to receive Council rewards at the end of Season 6:

I understand and have already completed KYC for the previous season.

Please verify that you are able to commit ~20 hours / month to Board operations:

Yes Iā€™m able to commit 20h / month to Board operations.

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Developer Advisory Board Nomination

If you are a delegate, please provide the link to your delegate profile:
NA

If you are a delegate, please indicate what % of votable supply is delegated to you:
NA

If you are a delegate, please indicate your voting participation rate in OP governance to date:
NA

Please link to your voting history and any voting rationale youā€™ve shared:
NA

Are you a representative of OP Labs:
No.

Please elaborate on your technical background. Please include information about the layer of the stack you have the most expertise on:
I have an expertise in ZK and security. As is evident from my experience in security reviews, I have audited projects across different layers of the stack. Some examples:

  • Infra (and Infra enhancers): Blast, Connext, LIFI, Axiom.
  • ZK: Polygon zkEVM, Semaphore, zkP2P, ECDSA circuits.
  • ERC-4337/Wallets: Alchemy, Coinbase, Clave
  • Apps: Astaria.

All audits can be found here.

I also have development experience as I collaborated on building a payment Validium prototype (ArcPay), and authored a DA aggregator (the blob info was stored in an Optimism smart contract) and a crypto search engine (all links here).

Organizations I have worked for in the past:

I was a Software Engineer before jumping into crypto with a background in Machine Learning and scaling infrastructure.

Hereā€™s my twitter.

Please demonstrate any non-Optimism experience you believe is relevant to this role:

  • Wrote multiple articles on technical topics: signature footguns, safe circom circuits, ethereum key generation process.
  • Proposed a privacy ZK protocol.
  • Built multiple complex projects in Rust: Search engine, DA aggregator and Validium.

This demonstrates my ability to write effectively and to build on top of security.

Have you previously served in a representative (appointed or elected) role in the Collective? If so, please specify which:
No.

Please outline your contributions, and their impact, to the Optimism ecosystem to date:

  • Iā€™ve audited Blast (report), an OP fork, via Spearbit (the one before the Cantina competition).
  • I participated in Optimism Sherlock competition (although issues went in the ā€œSponsor confirmedā€, ā€œnon-rewardā€ category).

Please describe your philosophy on what makes a good Mission Application:
A good Mission application clearly describes a broad mission as a north star goal, but it also describes a specific action plan needed to achieve that mission, trying to remove as much ambiguity as possible.

This brings clarity among the people aligning behind that mission and facilitates progress on something measurable.

The north star goal helps in course correction during the execution, and the specific action plan helps in focus and accountability.

Please demonstrate your ability to explain complex technical topics to a non-technical audience:
I have written explainers on key generation process for Ethereum wallets, tips on writing secure Circom circuits and explained ZK to beginner and non-technical audience. Iā€™ve received feedback that theyā€™re well written and get the point across easily.

I have also written about a private protocol (Shielded token transfers), although this requires some technical knowledge already.

All my writings can be found here.

Please disclose any anticipated conflicts of interest:
No conflicts of interest. Iā€™m going independent next month.

Please verify that you understand you may be removed from this role via the Representative Removal proposal type in the Operating Manual:
Yes.

Are you interested in the Ops Lead or Upgrade Czar roles?
Yes, Iā€™m interested in Upgrade Czar role. I have audited Blast, an OP fork. This audit needed an understanding of OP stack too. I also participated in Optimismā€™s Sherlock competition and understand the fault proof dispute section.

I also write on technical topics as listed above which validates the required skillset of written communication. I also mentored 3 people on smart contract security via EthernautDAO and received good feedback (related post).

Please verify that you understand KYC will be required to receive Council rewards at the end of Season 6:
Yes.

Please verify that you are able to commit ~20 hours / month to Board operations:
Yes. Iā€™m going independent from next month, and will be able to dedicate the required time for this role.

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Developer Advisory Board Self-Nomination Template

Please keep your answers as concise as possible while conveying all relevant information.

If you are a delegate, please provide the link to your delegate profile:

n/a

If you are a delegate, please indicate what % of votable supply is delegated to you:

n/a

If you are a delegate, please indicate your voting participation rate in OP governance to date:

n/a

Please link to your voting history and any voting rationale youā€™ve shared: (You may link to your Snapshot and/or Agora profile for voting history. You may link to your delegate communication thread, or any other medium you use to communicate with your delegators, to share your voting rationale.)

n/a

Are you a representative of OP Labs:

No.

Please elaborate on your technical background. Please include information about the layer of the stack you have the most expertise on:

Two years ago (June 2022) I signed onto Spearbit as a Lead Security Researcher. In this role I teamed up with expert level security researchers to review and secure code for a variety of projects (from lending, to bridging, to governance, and more).

My focus is Solidity and EVM based systems, specifically the application layer. Including all aspects of the software development lifecycle; design, development, testing, etc.

At present, I am Head of Security Reviews at Spearbit, where I share best practices with the ecosystem at large, and pair clients with the best security researchers to review and secure their codebases. A sample of my ecosystem contributions while at Spearbit include the Security Review Readiness Guide along with other developer focused materials at Spearbit/Armory.

Going back further here are some technical highlights:

  • Worked on the precursor to Protocol Guild with ameensol and jamesfickel. (See Draft EIP: Open Grant Standard)

  • CTO @ KIT Researcher (Java, TS, R, data engineering and analytics project)

  • CTO @ Tag Innovation (Solidity, TS, dapp development)

  • Scientist @ Zero Gravity Labs (Python and Scala based ML and analytics experimental projects)

  • Director, Research Automation @ MARU/VCR&C (JS data graphics, R modeling and workflow automation)

Please demonstrate any non-Optimism experience you believe is relevant to this role:

In 2022 I spent time with CMCC Global assisting with technical due diligence, reviewing early stage projects for both technical and security related considerations.

I have hands-on experience helping projects work through protocol design and architectural planning. This has been a primary focus of my work at Tag Innovation.

Have you previously served in a representative (appointed or elected) role in the Collective? If so, please specify which:

No.

Please outline your contributions, and their impact, to the Optimism ecosystem to date:

Through my work with Spearbit, both as a Lead Security Researcher and a core team member, I assist Optimism Ecosystem projects and OP Stack projects in securing their protocols.

I also assist ecosystem projects in onboarding web2 development expertise onto OP Stack ecosystems (such as tea.xyz).

Please describe your philosophy on what makes a good Mission Application:

Would expect the following to be clear in a good application:

  1. Identify which intent the application aligns with;

  2. Describe how they will accomplish their goals;

  3. Demonstrate their ability to execute.

Please demonstrate your ability to explain complex technical topics to a non-technical audience:

I love talking tech but am particularly adept at translating for non-technical audiences. Some workshops Iā€™ve delivered over the years include:

  • Introduction to Blockchain for Entrepreneurs @ VentureLAB

  • Smart Contract Vulnerabilities @ Blockchain Society

  • Metatransactions @ Deloitte Crypto Camp

  • Smart Contract Upgrade Strategies @ Crypto Chicks Hackathon Toronto

  • Smart Contracts 101: Peer to Peer Ecosystems for the Travel & Hospitality Industry @ Co-brand & Travel Rewards Conference

  • Gearing Up for Blockchain @ AiEvents MEGA

In addition to non-technical audiences, I have a history of introducing new technical topics to semi-technical crowds. Along with a team of Professors (Natalie from ToB, Jesse from Parity/Entropy, Stu from Chainsafe, and others), I designed, developed, and delivered the technical course content for the Blockchain Developer Program, the first of its kind in Canada.

Please disclose any anticipated conflicts of interest: If you are a top 25 delegate in another ecosystem, hold an elected position in another DAO, and/or are a multisig signer in another community please disclose here.

I am a Lead Security Researcher and Head of Security Reviews at Spearbit. While unlikely, a conflict of interest could arise on select topics related to Spearbit.

Otherwise there are no anticipated conflicts of interest.

Please verify that you understand you may be removed from this role via the Representative Removal proposal type in the Operating Manual 2:

Confirmed.

Are you interested in the Ops Lead or Upgrade Czar roles? If so, please share relevant experience and one idea you have for how the role could contribute to the collective.

At this time Iā€™m interested in contributing as a non-lead. Open to assisting in other capacities if a gap exists.

Please verify that you understand KYC will be required to receive Council rewards at the end of Season 6:

Confirmed.

Please verify that you are able to commit ~20 hours / month to Board operations:

Confirmed.

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Developer Advisory Board Self-Nomination: wbnns

If you are a delegate, please provide the link to your delegate profile:

If you are a delegate, please indicate what % of votable supply is delegated to you:

0.00678307%

(recently joined as a new delegate in the past week!)

If you are a delegate, please indicate your voting participation rate in OP governance to date:

N/A, I joined after May 29th (the last, most recent vote) ā€“ wonā€™t be this way for long. :slight_smile:

Please link to your voting history and any voting rationale youā€™ve shared:

N/A, my voting rationale will be primarily focused on whether initiatives enable developers to better and more easily build on the Superchain in order to bring the world onchain and to create a global open and permissionless economy. I align with a vision of innovation, efficiency, and equality of opportunity.

Are you a representative of OP Labs:

No, I am not. :slight_smile:

Please elaborate on your technical background. Please include information about the layer of the stack you have the most expertise on:

For the last 18 months I have been 100% focused on proliferating development on L2 via the OP Stack as a core contributor and developer advocate in the Base ecosystem.

I have extensive experience in full stack development, with proficiency in multiple frameworks including Bootstrap, Django, Flask, Gatsby, Hugo, Jekyll, NextJSS, Rails, React, React Native, and WordPress. I am proficient in languages such as C++, CSS, HTML, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Ruby, Solidity, and SQL. My work spans across various methodologies like Agile, Scrum, and Test-Driven Development (TDD), and I am familiar with numerous platforms and tools, including AWS, Docker, GitHub, GitLab, and more.

Please demonstrate any non-Optimism experience you believe is relevant to this role:

  • Base: As a Senior Developer Relations Advocate, I lead key initiatives managing large developer communities (Base Discord, the Base channel on Farcaster, Base on GitHub) and driving internal projects.
  • Editor: Mastering Bitcoin & Mastering Ethereum by Andreas Antonopolous
  • Former maintainer: Bitcoin.org

CV: https://wbnns.com/
GitHub: wbnns (wbnns) Ā· GitHub
Warpcast: Warpcast

Have you previously served in a representative (appointed or elected) role in the Collective? If so, please specify which:

No, I have not.

Please outline your contributions, and their impact, to the Optimism ecosystem to date:

  • Core contributor, Base: Developer relations and open source contributions maintainer
  • Contributor Superchain Token List: Open source contributions maintainer
  • Contributor, Superchain Bridge Expansion (Official Bridge Deprecation): End user acceptance testing lead

Please describe your philosophy on what makes a good Mission Application:

A good mission application should be clear, concise, and demonstrate a strong alignment with the goals of the collective and proliferating the Superchain ecosystem. It should strictly adhere to the Mission Applicant Guide.

Please demonstrate your ability to explain complex technical topics to a non-technical audience:

In my role as an editor for ā€œMastering Bitcoinā€ and ā€œMastering Ethereum,ā€ I have worked extensively to translate complex technical concepts into accessible language. Additionally, I have contributed to educational resources like ā€œLearn How to Codeā€ which provides step-by-step guidance for new developers. I am also a core contributor to https://docs.base.org/ which helps new as well as veteran developers learn more and get started using Base and working with the OP Stack.

Please disclose any anticipated conflicts of interest:

I do not anticipate any conflicts of interest! :slight_smile:

Please verify that you understand you may be removed from this role via the Representative Removal proposal type in the Operating Manual:

I understand and accept that I may be removed from this role through the Representative Removal proposal type in the Operating Manual.

Are you interested in the Ops Lead or Upgrade Czar roles? If so, please share relevant experience and one idea you have for how the role could contribute to the collective:

I would be interested in the Ops Lead role! With my extensive background in managing large developer communities and complex cross-functional initiatives, I believe I can effectively coordinate operations and drive strategic initiatives. One idea for contributing to the collective is to implement a comprehensive developer support program, including regular workshops, Q&A sessions/office-hours, and extending https://docs.optimism.io/ to further empower developers to integrate across the wider OP Stack ecosystem as a whole, as opposed to just one network/chain. For all initiatives, I think metrics, KPIs and OKRs are crucial to ensuring operational efficiency and leading a successful program.

Please verify that you understand KYC will be required to receive Council rewards at the end of Season 6:

Yep, I understand that KYC will be required to receive Council rewards at the end of Season 6.

** Please verify that you are able to commit ~20 hours / month to Board operations :**

I confirm I would happily be able to commit approximately ~20 hours / month to Board operations. :slight_smile:

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Developer Advisory Board Self-Nomination Template

Please keep your answers as concise as possible while conveying all relevant information.

If you are a delegate, please provide the link to your delegate profile:

If you are a delegate, please indicate what % of votable supply is delegated to you: (voting power can be referenced here )

91.76K OP (0.1%)

If you are a delegate, please indicate your voting participation rate in OP governance to date: (You may link to your profile on Karma , if applicable.)

100% in Season 5

Please link to your voting history and any voting rationale youā€™ve shared: (You may link to your Snapshot and/or Agora profile for voting history. You may link to your delegate communication thread, or any other medium you use to communicate with your delegators, to share your voting rationale.)

Are you a representative of OP Labs: No

Please elaborate on your technical background. Please include information about the layer of the stack you have the most expertise on:

I have been a TechNerd since Season 4. As a TechNerd, I have solved many cases related to OP Stack development, including launching nodes and OP Stack chains. I have also contributed to bug fixing and documentation for OP Stack.

My expertise lies primarily in OP Stack. I have developed many projects, most of them on Optimism, such as RetroList and Opti.Domains. I have also contributed to the ENS Gateway development upgrade for the OP Stack dispute game fault-proof merge. Most importantly, I maintain simple-optimism-node, the simplest and fastest Docker-based approach to launching an Optimism full node.

In addition, I have experience in Cosmos module development and non-EVM chains, including Sui and Aptos. I am also experienced in deploying validators and indexing nodes for various protocols.

Please demonstrate any non-Optimism experience you believe is relevant to this role:

Have you previously served in a representative (appointed or elected) role in the Collective?
TechNerd. Since I am a TechNerd, I can act as a bridge between the Developer Advisory Board and TechNerd.

Please outline your contributions, and their impact, to the Optimism ecosystem to date:

Projects

Author of two major Intent 1 mission request on Season 5

Pull Requests and Issues Discovered

Finally, as a TechNerd, I have solved many cases related to OP Stack development, including launching nodes and OP Stack chains.

Please describe your philosophy on what makes a good Mission Application:

  • Aligned with the mission request
  • Explain the brief technical implementation of the project
  • Not a bunch of buzzwords packed together
  • Team should have related past experience in that field
  • Have an impact on the collective
  • For end-user applications, prefer the one with a good revenue and business model over the builder-only application, especially if revenue sharing is proposed.
  • For end-user applications, the mission application should have both builder and growth aspects. Otherwise, adoption is unlikely to happen. However, the current grant system design discourages this.

Please demonstrate your ability to explain complex technical topics to a non-technical audience:

As a TechNerd, I have solved many cases involving OP Stack development, node launching, and OP Stack chain deployment. I have also contributed to technical documentation, which requires the ability to explain complex technical topics simply.

Please disclose any anticipated conflicts of interest:
I have contributed to these projects and companies

  • RetroList
  • Opti.Domains
  • Upnode

Please verify that you understand you may be removed from this role via the Representative Removal proposal type in the Operating Manual :
Yes

Are you interested in the Ops Lead or Upgrade Czar roles?
No

Please verify that you understand KYC will be required to receive Council rewards at the end of Season 6:
Yes

Please verify that you are able to commit ~20 hours / month to Board operations:
Yes

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Developer Advisory Board Nomination

If you are a delegate, please provide the link to your delegate profile:
NA

If you are a delegate, please indicate what % of votable supply is delegated to you:
NA

If you are a delegate, please indicate your voting participation rate in OP governance to date:
NA

Please link to your voting history and any voting rationale youā€™ve shared:
NA

Are you a representative of OP Labs:
No.

Please elaborate on your technical background. Please include information about the layer of the stack you have the most expertise on:

My primary interest lies in security. I began my journey in the space in early 2023 by competing in Code4rena and have been part of approximately 40 solo audits throughout the year.

At the end of 2023, I co-founded Renascence Labs with some of the industryā€™s brightest minds and have conducted ~25 audits with them.

In addition to my audit work, I have also developed BountyLens, a Telegram bot designed as a public good. It provides instant, real-time updates about bug bounties on Immunefi, leveling the playing field for white hats by notifying users about:

  • Asset additions/removals
  • New bounties
  • Bounty removals

Another project I developed as a public good is FindAudit. The first permissionless P2P security marketplace. It enables protocols to access hundreds of quotes from security providers entirely free of charge.

Currently, I am scaling smart contract security with Code4rena.

Please demonstrate any non-Optimism experience you believe is relevant to this role:

Beyond my security expertise within the EVM system, the highlights of my career are:

  • CTO at a VC-funded B2B SaaS startup based in New York. (JS/TS)
  • CTO at a headless eCommerce B2B platform based in the EU (JS/TS)
  • Open source contributions to React/Next.js (JS/TS)

I have successfully scaled two startups as an engineering and product leader, managing teams of over 40 people.

This experience has equipped me with the ability to recognize patterns beyond the specifics of blockchain technology, which is highly relevant to my application.

I am proficient in multiple programming languages and have experience in web and mobile development. I have also developed various internal tools using Babel and Webpack.

Additionally, I have contributed to widely recognized open-source repositories.

All of this demonstrates my ability to manage, execute, and build while ensuring the best security outcomes.

Have you previously served in a representative (appointed or elected) role in the Collective? If so, please specify which:

No

Please outline your contributions, and their impact, to the Optimism ecosystem to date:

While I have made significant contributions to the broader space, I have not yet contributed directly to Optimism. If elected, this will mark the beginning of my direct involvement and contributions to the Optimism ecosystem.

Please describe your philosophy on what makes a good Mission Application:

A good mission application should be clear, concise, and aligned with the specified intent. It should demonstrate how the project supports the missionā€™s goals and provide a realistic, step-by-step plan to achieve these goals.

The application should explain why the team is uniquely qualified to deliver the project and outline its strategy for solving potential issues.

Justifying why the proposed solution is the best option, while considering alternatives, adds to the applicationā€™s strength.

It should demonstrate the teamā€™s capability to deliver and provide a solid plan for success.

Overall, a good mission application is concise, contextually relevant, and outlines a clear scope and specifications.

Please demonstrate your ability to explain complex technical topics to a non-technical audience:

I have numerous blog posts and long-form twitter content, here are some examples:

Please disclose any anticipated conflicts of interest: If you are a top 25 delegate in another ecosystem, hold an elected position in another DAO, and/or are a multisig signer in another community please disclose here:

Iā€™m not a top 25 delegate, I do not hold an elected position and Iā€™m not a multisig signer in another community.

Please verify that you understand you may be removed from this role via the Representative Removal proposal type in the Operating Manual 2:

I understand this.

Are you interested in the Ops Lead or Upgrade Czar roles? If so, please share relevant experience and one idea you have for how the role could contribute to the collective.

Iā€™m interested in the Ops Lead role. Throughout my career, Iā€™ve led engineering organizations consisting of multiple teams.

I have plenty of applicable experience working on processes and improvements and clearing organizational debt.

I have no problem with taking the driverā€™s seat as that will be a natural role for me.

I believe that the Ops Lead can contribute significantly to the collective by:

  • Demonstrating extreme ownership, identifying inefficiencies, and having the courage to propose necessary changes, even if they are challenging to implement.
  • Be actively involved and take the lead in every board initiative.
  • Ensuring sufficient transparency that is aligned with the ethos of what we do and the space weā€™re in
  • Networking with other councils to build relationships, to help cross-council decision-making.

I do not have specific ideas for the role yet, as I need to understand the nature of the work better before I can develop a worthy proposal.

Please verify that you understand KYC will be required to receive Council rewards at the end of Season 6:

I understand this.

Please verify that you are able to commit ~20 hours / month to Board operations:

I verify.

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GM! Just a heads-up: the original template has been modified. The question ā€œAre you interested in the Ops Lead or Upgrade Czar roles?ā€ was added, and the hour commitment was changed from 7 hours per week to 20 hours per month.

Please update your application using the new template available at this link: Season 6 Elections: Developer Advisory Board

Thanks for applying! Iā€™m excited to see great profiles interested in joining the Developer Advisory Board.

cc.@devtooligan @bayardo @merklefruit @gmhacker @philogy @wbnns

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If you are a delegate, please provide the link to your delegate profile:

Note: I am not an individual delegate, but am Governance Lead for she256.

If you are a delegate, please indicate what % of votable supply is delegated to you: 1.38%

If you are a delegate, please indicate your voting participation rate in OP governance to date: 81%

Please link to your voting history and any voting rationale youā€™ve shared::
https://snapshot.org/#/profile/0xed11e5eA95a5A3440fbAadc4CC404C56D0a5bb04

Are you a representative of OP Labs: No

Please elaborate on your technical background. Please include information about the layer of the stack you have the most expertise on:

My background is in software & smart contract engineering. Iā€™ve been at Coinbase for 4 years, and was a founding engineer on the Base team. Iā€™ve spent most of that time on smart contracts & key management, but have worked across the OP stack.

Please demonstrate any non-Optimism experience you believe is relevant to this role:

Involvement in the ecosystem over the last 5 years. I have a passion for empowering new people to come into the ecosystem with efforts like the EthDenver 2023 crypto bounty, which had >1K participants (many non-engineers) and for which I wrote the smart contracts.

Have you previously served in a representative (appointed or elected) role in the Collective? If so, please specify which: No

Please outline your contributions, and their impact, to the Optimism ecosystem to date:

  • Designed & set up Base upgrade process (repo 1, repo 2), which has become foundation for the OP superchain upgrade process.

  • Coordinated > 10 upgrades to Base contracts.

  • Designed & set up Base key management, which unblocked the launch of Base.

  • Contributed to OP stack upgrades.

  • Recently switched from engineering to being the Product Manager for the Base protocol team (team focuses on everything Base network related, including decentralization & scaling).

Please describe your philosophy on what makes a good Mission Application:

Good Mission Applications clearly describe the value theyā€™ll add to the ecosystem (and how this aligns with the goals of the Collective), as well as what success looks like. They should justify the amount of OP requested and enumerate the intended use of these funds.

Please demonstrate your ability to explain complex technical topics to a non-technical audience:

  • Iā€™ve spoken about Base publicly for non-technical audiences, such as on The Blockchain Experience podcast.

  • My work in coordinating upgrades both as an engineer and now as a PM has involved a large amount of stakeholder alignment (Legal, BD, etc), who have varying levels of technical expertise. I have to ensure all stakeholders have an understanding of the implications of upgrades to give their proper signoff.

  • When I worked on key management, I wrote this semi-technical blog post and gave this non-technical talk (starting around 14mins) describing MPC, a very technical concept.

Please disclose any anticipated conflicts of interest: If you are a top 25 delegate in another ecosystem, hold an elected position in another DAO, and/or are a multisig signer in another community please disclose here.

I feel passionate about providing objective information to make these complex upgrades more understandable to folks who are non-technical or less familiar with the OP stack.

For she256 voting, we practice consensus-based decision making and for obvious reasons, I will abstain from including myself in consensus for a vote where Iā€™m on the ballot. If others feel strongly that she256 should overall abstain from this vote, I believe the team would be receptive to that feedback as well.

Please verify that you understand you may be removed from this role via the Representative Removal proposal type in the Operating Manual: Yes

Are you interested in the Ops Lead or Upgrade Czar roles? If so, please share relevant experience and one idea you have for how the role could contribute to the collective.

Yes, I am interested in the Upgrade Czar role, given my exposure to OP upgrades. I have visibility on upgrades including technical details, implementation progress, dependencies, etc. and believe I can provide delegates all of the important context in an objective way.

As a governance participant, I believe strongly in the value of providing important information to delegates in an easily digestible way, to make their decision making informed and high signal.

Please verify that you understand KYC will be required to receive Council rewards at the end of Season 6: Yes

Please verify that you are able to commit ~20 hours / month to Board operations: Yes

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