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:
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If you are a delegate, please indicate what % of votable supply is delegated to you:
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If you are a delegate, please indicate your voting participation rate in OP governance to date:
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Please link to your voting history and any voting rationale you’ve shared:
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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. I’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, I’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. I’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 Solady’s ERC1967Proxy, or my article on 0xbadcode’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.
I’m interested in contributing in whichever role.