# Season 6 Nominations: Developer Advisory Board **URL:** \ **Category:** Elections\ **Tags:** season-6\ **Created:** [May 10, 2024, 12:56pm UTC](https://gov.optimism.io/t/season-6-nominations-developer-advisory-board/8117 "2024-05-10T12:56:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 21
**Author:** ![0xleastwood](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/bc41dd/user_avatar/gov.optimism.io/0xleastwood/32/9197_2.png) [@0xleastwood](https://gov.optimism.io/u/0xleastwood)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2024, 5:07pm UTC](https://gov.optimism.io/t/season-6-nominations-developer-advisory-board/8117/21 "2024-06-05T17:07:12Z")
**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:** (voting power can be referenced [here](https://dune.com/optimismfnd/optimism-op-token-house)) 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](https://optimism.showkarma.xyz/), if applicable.) n/a **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.) 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 have been a spectator of the space since 2017 and involved in a deliberate fashion since 2020. I first worked at Sigma Prime casually as I completed my studies in Australia and quickly joined full-time in the middle of 2021. Since then, I have been focused almost entirely in smart contract security and more recently have been working as Lead Security Researcher at Spearbit/Cantina. It’s been almost 2 years and i’ve had the pleasure of working with countless projects working on super novel ideas. Some of my work is listed here too ([https://leastwood.xyz](https://leastwood.xyz)). **Please demonstrate any non-Optimism experience you believe is relevant to this role:** I have an extensive security background and have worked with a multitude of projects, through my time at Sigma Prime, Code4rena and more recently with Spearbit/Cantina. **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:** My work has mostly been limited to projects which are deployed on Optimism or other OP stack chains such as Fraxtal. However, i’m definitely interested in expanding upon that relationship. **Please describe your philosophy on what makes a good Mission Application:** The core value here is alignment which exists in many important forms. Mission applications must be solving actual problems and encourage user adoption in a sustainable fashion. Having a security background, i believe the success of a team is driven by the gravity given to security and this can be seen even in the early days of a project. Ultimately, mission applications should also accrue value to Optimism either directly or indirectly. **Please demonstrate your ability to explain complex technical topics to a non-technical audience:** Many times i have conducted formal/informal talks about security, typically to audiences of mixed technical skills. However, i will say a lot of this is more on the informal side and is not necessarily documented. **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. Nope, i’m only a multisig signer of Alongside which does not have any conflicts with Optimism. **Please verify that you understand you may be removed from this role via the Representative Removal proposal type in the [Operating Manual](https://github.com/ethereum-optimism/OPerating-manual/blob/main/manual.md):** Understood! **Please verify that you understand KYC will be required to receive Council rewards at the end of Season 6:** No problemo. **Please verify that you are able to commit ~20 hours / month to Board operations** : Yes i can! --- _[View the full topic](https://gov.optimism.io/t/season-6-nominations-developer-advisory-board/8117)._