Security Council Member Nomination: Corey Petty (corpetty.eth)

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Security Council Member Self-Nomination

Please indicate if you are running to be the Council Lead or a Council Member:

Council Member

Does this nomination represent an individual or organization:

individual

Candidate country of residence (or, if an entity, incorporation and principle place of business):

USA

Have you previously served on Optimism’s Security Council:

no

Have you previously served on any other Council or Board in the Collective:

no

Are you a representative of OP Labs:

no

Are you a representative of another OP Chain:

no

If you are a delegate, please provide the link to your delegate profile:

N/A

If you are a member of the Citizens’ House, please link to your most recent attestation here:

N/A

Please outline your contributions, and their impact, to the Optimism ecosystem to date:

As for direct contributions, I have only helped with education and awareness of the organization via interviews (linked youtube videos, which were uploaded recently to new channel so downloads are not reflective of actual numbers):

Please demonstrate any non-Optimism experience you believe is relevant to this role:

I have contributed significantly to the security field as well as general technical education of blockchain throughout my career. I am heavily aligned with the ideals of the Ethereum ecosystem. I’ve given classes on simple to advanced proper key management. Additionally, I have a reasonably large social profile (happy to provide references), lending to lowering risk of flight or maligned behavior. I’ve listed a number of interviews and material that’s been published throughout the years. There are many more but I’d like to keep this relatively short:

In a different vein, I work as the portfolio manager and “head of Insights” within the IFT, which has had exposure to developments at all layers of the stack. Some of this work has interfaced with and around OP (Nimbus/Status).

Please elaborate on your technical background, including your github handle (this will be used to calculate your github expertise score and will be added to your nomination before it goes to a vote by the Foundation):

  • Github: corpetty
  • My background is founded in a mixture of high performance computing, quantum physics, and physical chemistry. This was then leveraged to enter the industry via a data science/security position for a number of years. This was then leveraged to enter into the security industry (as Status’ Cheif Security Officer) when the conversation was small where I spent a lot of time in the broad community trying to raise the bar for everyone. I’ve spent considerable time analyzing all aspects of the blockchain stack, from identifying inefficiencies and improvements to the gossipsub and consensus layer to application security and intuitive UX design to help users make informed decisions for themselves.

Please elaborate on your experience with relevant member (or Lead) requirements:

Extensive experience with advising, managing, and threat modeling various multisig treasuries with zero compromises (loss of funds, loss of access, etc) in anything that I’ve overseen.

Please describe your philosophy on what makes a good Security Council member:

My general mentality to everything is a risk-based approach: Understand value, how it’s secured and accessed, minimize risk around it being compromised. Community is the key to any of this, so their voices and needs are number 1 priority, meaning the concept of risk is focused around them and their growth/sustainability.

Please disclose any anticipated conflicts of interest:

N/A

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

Yes

Please verify that you understand that election is subject to successful completion of a Foundation screen which may include KYC/AML, sanctions screening, and a requirement to sign a standard contract: [No/Yes]

Yes

Please verify that you are able to commit ~5 active hours / month to fulfill the Member Responsibilities. Please note that there is an “on-call” aspect to this role that is not fully encompassed in the active hours estimate: [No/Yes]

Yes

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Can you elaborate on your motivation for running for security council?

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Happy to!

First off, I was asked to nominate myself as some folks thought I would be a good candidate. After reading about it, I felt I fit the bill. I’m confident in my security expertise, I care about the success of the project, and I like helping out. It’s a relatively straightforward task that doesn’t require too much of my time, and my schedule is ok with the “on-call” aspect of things as I’ve been in multiple “war rooms” throughout my time in the industry.

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Thanks for your answer. My main hang up on approving your nomination is I don’t see strong indicators of your alignment with the success of the Optimism Collective. You don’t have a record of discussion in the forum, and and I don’t think I’ve seen you in discord or anything like that. You’re not a part of a project that depends on Optimism’s success (from what I can tell).

Not to say that you aren’t aligned with Optimism’s mission and success, but I don’t see proof of “skin in the game” so to speak, which I is important for me to approve someone to the security council.

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You’d be right to feel that way. There isn’t any evidence outside of my broader ecosystem alignment. I am not explicitly a part of any of the current Optimism projects (as of right now).

My alignment is with the industry, and whom I consider “good” players within it, and Optimism is one of them. I’m happy to prove that to you in some form or another, or others can chime in on my behalf. IF that isn’t enough, I understand and I’m fine with not being approved.

Although a small factor and subjective, you can see the quality of folks who’ve interacted with my tweet discussing my self-nomination.

I’d also argue that including someone external to the projects within Optimism isn’t a bad thing, assuming they’re qualified and they’re reasonably aligned with the project and the ecosystem at large, which I am.

In the event you have enough candidates that are stronger, which results in a more secure council, then I would be happy to not be a part of it. The goal is a strong, decentralized council, regardless of my involvement.

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In full support of this nomination - @corpetty´s commitment to security in this ecosystem for the past several years including security education and multiple “war room” security experiences make him a solid, trustworthy and value aligned candidate.

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Very much in support of @corpetty’s application. Fantastic contributor to the web3 space.

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I am an optimism delegate with sufficient voting power and support this nomination.

I have followed and interacted with Corey over the years and though yes there is no specific Optimism alignment, his experience, talents and good ethics are qualities one should want to see from a security council member.

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I am an Optimism delegate with sufficient voting power and I believe this proposal is ready to move to a vote. I’ve been following Corey for some time already and I think he would be a valuable nominee for the Security Council elections.

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