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):
Uruguay
Have you previously served on Optimism’s Security Council:
Yes
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:
Yes
If you are a member of the Citizens’ House, please link to your most recent attestation here:
Please outline your contributions, and their impact, to the Optimism ecosystem to date:
I am a delegate, a badgeholder, and a member of the Security Council. Before that I worked on Synthetix as one of Optimism’s first L2 protocols.
Please demonstrate any non-Optimism experience you believe is relevant to this role:
I was part of the Synthetix Security Council, as well as a signer in their Protocol DAO, in charge of “owning” the protocol and upgrading it, so I am very familiar with these processes.
Please elaborate on your technical background, including your expertise score (more info on this shortly):
I’ve been a software developer for ~20 years, the last 7 as an Ethereum Smart Contract developer, application layer. I’ve been a part of the following core teams: Synthetix, Aragon, Open Zeppelin.
Please elaborate on your experience with relevant member (or Lead) requirements:
I understand and have years of experience in the problematic of off-chain decisions (governance) being imprinted on a system on-chain, as well as the technical aspect of the immutability of our systems. In that sense, I believe that I am fit to be part of a group of people that is in charge of ensuring assisting Optimism’s protocol upgrades and governance decisions.
Please describe your philosophy on what makes a good Security Council member:
Attention to detail, validating every single piece of data that is presented. Double checking everything. Making no assumptions.
Please disclose any anticipated conflicts of interest:
None
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 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.