Hello, its Plug! I am applying to the technical council of NFT WG after being asked by the current council. As a founder, developer, ecosystem practitioner in NEAR, I think I am the best fit for this role.
Relevant Experience
- Ran the NEAR NFT Builder Group for 1+ years, rallying top NFT builders to innovate and push standards.
- Founder of GenaDrop, open source multichain NFT toolkit
- Experience shipping BOS components + tooling, gateways , curating libraries, hosted code reviews + NEAR Workshops.
- Experience with communicating & working with with top stakeholders, DAO, Wallets, and Infrastructure teams on NEAR
- Experience running 2+ years of hackathons & winning hackathons.
- Experience with engineering and running dev teams
- Experience designing and reviewing milestones for grants, bounties and proposal writing & technical architecture
- Experience with building public goods infrastructure and mechanisms
- Experience with recruiting + running teams, DAOs, and setting up OKRs and reporting structures
- Experience with running decentralized developers communities especially with the founder of Minority Programmers in 2019
- Graduated CS and CIS from school of business
- Experience with teaching software engineering through DevRel, and as tutor & teaching assistant
- Worked on other ecosystem and alignment with Ethereum ecosystem, partner of Enterprise Ethereum Alliance
- 7+ years in crypto
Pay
- As mentioned before I do not want direct pay. However, I do want to reallocate stipend to pay my team at Genadrop to build open source NFT infrastructure on NEAR, in which we will keep wg updated on a weekly basis through our regular calls.
What I will do
- Build NFT innovation and infrastructure
- Create a builder environment to build open source NFT public goods
- Reallocate my stipend to cost effective builders in the ecosystem
- Review proposals, advise teams to improve proposals, and review milestones
- Communicate with builders and founders in the NEAR ecosystem and turn NFT WG to touch point of NFTs in the ecosystem
- Compile related technical documentation related to NFTs
- Look towards paths for NFT WG to create revenue
- Find other suitable technical council & candidates to join team / provide advisory role after we prove our success as a DAO
- Help aid with formal membership process and ops