Season 7 Nominations: Governance Mission Team on the Developer Advisory Board

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Season 7 Nominations: Governance Mission Team on the Developer Advisory Board

Please post your self-nominations for the Season 7 Governance Mission Team on the Developer Advisory Board by commenting your complete self-nomination in the comments on this post, according to the template and process outlined here. There are 3 elected positions open on this Team within the DAB in Season 7, according to the governance-approved Season 7 Developer Advisory Board Operating Budget and Charter.

Nominations must be posted on this thread by 19:00 GMT on Friday, January 3rd

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Hey all, my name’s Will! :wave: I’m a core team member at Base and was a Developer Advisory Board member in Season 6. I’d like to self-nominate to rejoin in Season 7 and serve on the newly formed Governance Mission Team. I’d love to be able to continue my work, building on the momentum from last season if given the opportunity.

Adding my self-nomination template below.

Developer Advisory Board Self-Nomination Template

Please link to your Optimist Profile or Organization ID here. All candidates are required to create an Optimist Profile by following the steps at atlas.optimism.io and sharing their profile link below.

Please link to any contributions that demonstrate you meet the eligibility criteria outlined in the Charter for the specific Developer Advisory Board team you’re applying for:

  • Core team @ Base: Developer relations and Base communities lead, open source contributions maintainer, hackathons and workshops co-lead
  • Developer Advisory Board Season 6 member
  • Editor: Mastering Bitcoin & Mastering Ethereum
  • Former maintainer of bitcoin․org
  • Full stack developer

Please verify that you have no conflicts of interest:

Confirming I have no conflicts of interest

Please verify that you understand you may be removed from this role via the Representative Removal proposal type in the Operating Manual

Confirming I understand

Please verify that you understand KYC will be required to receive Council rewards at the end of Season 7:

Confirming I understand

Please verify that you are able to commit ~20 hours / month to Board operations:

Confirming I am able to make this commitment

I think this next year is going to be the biggest year yet for the Superchain :+1:

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Developer Advisory Board Self-Nomination Template

Hello everyone, my name is Waylon Jepsen. I am a core team member of an applied cryptography organization called Pluto Labs and I served on the Developer Advisory board in Season 5. I would like to self nominate for Season 7 and serve on the newly formed Governance Mission Team. I am grateful for the good fortune to be collaborating with the optimism ecosystem and would be happy to continue to server the Optimism Collective.

Here is my self-nomination template.

Please link to your Optimist Profile or Organization ID here. All candidates are required to create an Optimist Profile by following the steps at atlas.optimism.io and sharing their profile link below.

Please link to any contributions that demonstrate you meet the eligibility criteria outlined in the Charter for the specific Developer Advisory Board team you’re applying for:

  • Core Team @ Pluto Labs: Building fast client side proving infrastructure for web proofs.
  • Author of Ronkathon: Applied cryptography education foundations
  • Author of arbiter an open source evm financial simulation tool
  • Developer Advisory Board Season 5 member
  • Recipient of EF grant to audit Poseidon Hash Function
  • Organizer of Jessy’s Hacker House’s (2020-2023)

Please verify that you have no conflicts of interest:

I confirm that I have no conflicts of interest

Please verify that you understand you may be removed from this role via the Representative Removal proposal type in the Operating Manual

I confirm that I understand

Please verify that you understand KYC will be required to receive Council rewards at the end of Season 7:

I confirm that I understand

Please verify that you are able to commit ~20 hours / month to Board operations:

I confirm that I understand

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blockdev here. I was a part of DAB season 6 and I’m self-nominating for Governance Mission team for Season 7.

Developer Advisory Board Self-Nomination

Please link to any contributions that demonstrate you meet the eligibility criteria outlined in the Charter for the specific Developer Advisory Board team you’re applying for:

  • Security auditor: Audited several protocols deployed on Superchain, audited OP fork, several ZK projects, Account Abstraction projects. Experienced via working at Spearbit/Cantina, Ethereum Foundation (PSE), yAudit. Currently doing audits mostly at Spearbit.
  • DAB season 6 member.
  • Mentored/judged two OP related hackathons: EthGlobal Superhack and Aleph hackathon OP track.
  • Built multiple complex projects in Rust: Search engine, DA aggregator and Validium.
  • Wrote articles on technical topics: signature footguns, safe circom circuits, ethereum key generation process.

Please verify that you have no conflicts of interest:

No conflict of interest.

Please verify that you understand you may be removed from this role via the Representative Removal proposal type in the Operating Manual

I understand.

Please verify that you understand KYC will be required to receive Council rewards at the end of Season 7:

I understand.

Please verify that you are able to commit ~20 hours / month to Board operations:

I am able to commit 20 hours per month to Board operations.

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Developer Advisory Board Self-Nomination Template

Hello, everyone; my name is Godspower Eze. I am an independent researcher and engineer exploring the power of lattice-based cryptography. I want to self-nominate for Season 7 and serve on the newly formed Governance Mission Team.

Here is my self-nomination template.

Please link to your Optimist Profile or Organization ID here. All candidates are required to create an Optimist Profile by following the steps at atlas.optimism.io and sharing their profile link below.

Please link to any contributions that demonstrate you meet the eligibility criteria outlined in the Charter for the specific Developer Advisory Board team you’re applying for:

Please verify that you have no conflicts of interest.

I confirm that I have no conflicts of interest

Please verify that you understand you may be removed from this role via the Representative Removal proposal type in the Operating Manual

I confirm that I understand

Please verify that you understand KYC will be required to receive Council rewards at the end of Season 7:

I confirm that I understand

Please verify that you are able to commit ~20 hours / month to Board operations:

I am able to commit 20 hours per month to Board operations.

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Developer Advisory Board Self-Nomination Template

Hello everyone, my name is Cooper. I am a software developer with six years of experience, having worked in embedded systems, payment platforms, object storage, and gaming industries. Attracted by the principles of Web3, I am currently dedicating all my learning time to blockchain technology, hoping to make a meaningful contribution to this field. GDWeb3 is an initiative that connects the knowledge I gained in the gaming industry, aiming to promote blockchain technology to more game developers.

I would like to self-nominate for Season 7 and serve on the newly formed Governance Mission Team. I believe that I can leverage my diverse work experience across multiple domains to add value in this role. I would be happy to continue serving the Optimism Collective. Thank you!

Please link to your Optimist Profile or Organization ID here. All candidates are required to create an Optimist Profile by following the steps at atlas.optimism.io and sharing their profile link below.

Please link to any contributions that demonstrate you meet the eligibility criteria outlined in the Charter for the specific Developer Advisory Board team you’re applying for:

  • GDScript library for interacting with blockchain networks(Optimism is priority support network).
    gdscript-web3

Please verify that you have no conflicts of interest:

I confirm that I have no conflicts of interest

Please verify that you understand you may be removed from this role via the Representative Removal proposal type in the Operating Manual

I confirm that I understand

Please verify that you understand KYC will be required to receive Council rewards at the end of Season 7:

I confirm that I understand

Please verify that you are able to commit ~20 hours / month to Board operations:

I am able to commit 20 hours per month to Board operations

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Hey everyone, I’m beskay. I’m an electrical engineer and got into smart contract development ~4 years ago. Below is my self-nomination template.

Please link to your Optimist Profile or Organization ID here. All candidates are required to create an Optimist Profile by following the steps at atlas.optimism.io and sharing their profile link below.

Atlas/beskay

Please link to any contributions that demonstrate you meet the eligibility criteria outlined in the Charter for the specific Grants Council team you’re applying for:

  • Active in the crypto ecosystem since 2017
  • Started working as a Smart Contract Engineer in early 2021
  • Following the Optimism/Superchain ecosystem since 2022
  • In-depth DeFi knowledge due to 4 years of experience as a Developer and Advisor for various protocols

Experience
From newest to oldest:

  • Lead developer at Arbius.ai:
    • Implemented staking and vote escrow contracts/tokenomics inspired by Synthetix’ StakingRewards.sol and Velodrome’s vote escrow architecture
    • ~$10M TVL as of now, close to 40% of circulating supply is locked a few weeks after launch
  • Developer at a Perp trading protocol on Arbitrum:
    • Worked on trading logic and performed internal audits of the whole codebase
  • Developer at a Yield aggregator on Metis:
    • Conducted internal audits and supported the lead developer
    • TVL was ~$200M at peak

Additionally:

  • Past council member of EthernautDAO
  • Working on evm-runners, a CLI game with EVM-based challenges
  • My website for more info (e.g., more personal projects): beskay.com

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’m a multisig signer of EthernautDAO

Please verify that you understand you may be removed from this role via the Representative Removal proposal type in the Operating Manual

  • I understand

Please verify that you understand KYC will be required to receive Council rewards at the end of Season 7:

  • I understand

Please verify that you are able to commit ~20 hours / month to Board operations:

  • I am able to commit 20 hours per month to Board operations
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Hello everyone! My name is Shubham Yadav, and I am a protocol engineer at Sablier Labs.

I’d like to nominate myself to join the Governance Mission Team for Season 7. Below, you can find the required details as part of the process.

Developer Advisory Board Self-Nomination Template

Please link to your Optimist Profile or Organization ID here. All candidates are required to create an Optimist Profile by following the steps at atlas.optimism.io and sharing their profile link below.

https://atlas.optimism.io/shub

There seems to be an incorrect implementation of GitHub’s redirect_uri which is not letting me connect my GitHub account to my Atlas account (open issue). Therefore, I am pasting my GitHub profile below:

https://github.com/smol-ninja

Please link to any contributions that demonstrate you meet the eligibility criteria outlined in the Charter for the specific Developer Advisory Board team you’re applying for:

  • I am currently a smart contract engineer at Sablier, where I am responsible for brainstorming, designing and developing Lockup and Flow protocols.
  • I co-founded Zillet, a web wallet for Zilliqa.
  • In 2016, I founded Coindelta, a cryptocurrency exchange for India. Therefore showing that I have been committed to web3 space for a very long time.

Please verify that you have no conflicts of interest:

I confirm that I have no conflicts of interest.

Please verify that you understand you may be removed from this role via the Representative Removal proposal type in the Operating Manual

I confirm that I understand it.

Please verify that you understand KYC will be required to receive Council rewards at the end of Season 7:

I confirm that I understand it.

Please verify that you are able to commit ~20 hours / month to Board operations:

Yes I will be very happy to commit 20 hours a month for this.

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Hi everyone! I’m Iain! :ocean: I’m on the protocol team at ZORA and also work on the ZORA network’s application-level integration and documentation. I’d like to self-nominate to rejoin in Season 7 and serve on the newly formed Governance Mission Team. I’m excited to potentially be a part of the optimism collective evaluating projects and look through technical feedback.

I’m unable to connect my github to the optimism profile: iainnash (Iain Nash) · GitHub

Adding my self-nomination template below.

Developer Advisory Board Self-Nomination Template

Please link to your Optimist Profile or Organization ID here. All candidates are required to create an Optimist Profile by following the steps at atlas.optimism.io and sharing their profile link below.

  • My Optimist Profile: @iain

Please link to any contributions that demonstrate you meet the eligibility criteria outlined in the Charter for the specific Developer Advisory Board team you’re applying for:

  • Protocol team @ ZORA: Built the ZORA creator tools onchain protocol, maintain ZORA protocol upgrades, security and ZORA network management at ZORA, helped maintain and build nouns builder DAO and contributed system upgrades and design around NFT metadata. Work with cross-chain deploys and protocol maintenance across multiple Superchains and EVM chains.
  • Community tools builder/steward: Built and maintain https://ether.actor/ (gh) alongside https://wei.tools (gh) as public goods Ethereum tooling for developers.
  • Open source NFT protocol developer: Built and worked with an audit for an NFT raffle (Forgeries gh), built out a prototype cross-chain NFT framework (OmniNFT gh), prototyped a on-chain incentivized cron framework.
  • Full stack developer

Please verify that you have no conflicts of interest:

Confirming I have no conflicts of interest

Please verify that you understand you may be removed from this role via the Representative Removal proposal type in the Operating Manual

Confirming I understand

Please verify that you understand KYC will be required to receive Council rewards at the end of Season 7:

Confirming I understand

Please verify that you are able to commit ~20 hours / month to Board operations:

Confirming I can make this commitment

Excited to see the superchain grow with the overall ethereum ecosystem.

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Closing this topic on January 3rd at 19:00 GMT, the due date for self-nominations. Thank you to all the applicants!

Delegates: You can assess candidates from now until January 8th. Elections start on January 9th, so be ready! :sparkles: