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):
United States of America.
Have you previously served on Optimism’s Security Council:
No.
Have you previously served on any other Council or Board in the Collective:
Yes. I have served on the Developer Advisory Board.
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:
No.
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:
As a member of the Developer Advisory Board I evaluated the technical merit of proposals in the OP ecosystem.
Please demonstrate any non-Optimism experience you believe is relevant to this role:
As a systems engineer I have made contributions to a wide array of software including EVM execution clients, data availability clients, automated market makers, security tooling, and security audits of cryptographic hash functions and additional primitives.
Please elaborate on your technical background, including your expertise score (more info on this shortly):
Expanding the information above. I initially studied pure mathematics and philosophy where my studies were oriented around epistemology and cryptography. I then pursued graduate degrees in computer science where I broke VPNs by modeling TCP congesting with a tropical algebraic model. After this I spent a few years building automated market makers designed to replicate specific payoffs to liquidity providers and EVM security tools to evaluate their security and performance. Now I spend my time working on applied cryptography for security and privacy solutions. Anyone is welcome see proof of my technical work and open source contributions over the years on my Github
Please elaborate on your experience with relevant member (or Lead) requirements:
Please describe your philosophy on what makes a good Security Council member:
I believe a good security council member possesses a deep technical skill set, strong communication skills, and a high degree of agency. These qualities should be used together to quickly asses security attack surfaces, responsibly handle key management and communicate precisely and timely with other council members about all relevant information to coordinate to serve the OP ecosystem.
Please disclose any anticipated 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 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.