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 you’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. I’ve been at Coinbase for 4 years, and was a founding engineer on the Base team. I’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:
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Designed & set up Base upgrade process (repo 1, repo 2), which has become foundation for the OP superchain upgrade process.
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Coordinated > 10 upgrades to Base contracts.
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Designed & set up Base key management, which unblocked the launch of Base.
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Contributed to OP stack upgrades.
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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 they’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:
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I’ve spoken about Base publicly for non-technical audiences, such as on The Blockchain Experience podcast.
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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.
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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 I’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