Season 6 Nominations: Developer Advisory Board

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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 you’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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