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 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 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.