1) Joined IOHK in 2021 as a consultant and became one of the original PCubed contributors in the Cardano ecosystem.
2) Transitioned to a full‑time role at IOHK eight months later during the Voltaire era.
3) Helped pioneer the innersource movement within IOHK, conducting an in‑depth analysis of 600 repositories to establish open‑source best practices and maturity benchmarks.
4) Served as Lead for MBO Design and OSPO Lead within the Voltaire tribe at IOHK for what would become Intersect
5) Designed the original service offerings, supporting diagrams, and initial committee structures for governance and open‑source operations.
6) Created foundational designs for the Technical Steering Committee (TSC) and Open Source Committee (OSC), and led the OSC with its inaugural members.
7) Appointed full‑time Head of the OSPO in December 2023 following the successful transfer of core repositories to Intersect.
8) Drove adoption of open‑source best practices across core teams, contribution programs, policies, and overall open‑source strategy for Intersect / Core Cardano.
9) Launched the official Open Source Office YouTube channel and X account to increase community visibility.
10) Rebuilt and strengthened the Cardano brand within the broader open‑source ecosystem like LF, TODO Group, etc
11) Founded and initially ran the Security Council at Intersect
12) Architected, authored, and launched the initial concept and pilot of the Paid Open Source Model (POSM).
13) Corrected misaligned open‑source stewardship practices that risked increasing centralization.
14) Established Intersect’s Incident Coordination and Big Bounty program.
15) Led the incident‑management response for the network partition event, validating that robust security processes were in place and effectively managed through Intersect.
16) Launched a comprehensive support‑services umbrella for all projects under the Paid Open Source Model.
17) Founded and integrated key partnerships—including the Chinstrap community—to provide free legal and COSS resources to the Cardano ecosystem.
18) Designed and implemented Intersect’s project incubation program, successfully securing a new home for the Evolution SDK.
Current Focus
19) Building awareness of Cardano’s governance structures through LFDT via Frontier Labs
20) Providing pro bono open‑source consulting and strategic support to Cardano projects. (Andamio, Charli3, Aquana)
I know I'm missing a few
This was a fun exercise I did in response to a comment this morning, thought I'd share. There are many people just like me in Cardano, with a list like this, who are on the verge of having to close up shop due to a lack of opportunity. I say opportunity, not funding, because that's exactly what it is. There is no one new coming to build here. The leads have all dried up internally. The customers as well. Regardless, we should be working harder to keep the ecosystem layer alive. I constantly hear that community is our strongest asset but we are seemingly ok with killing off our builder layer which directly interacts with them, and where most of our builders came from. I'm not sitting here saying let's subsidize builders but can we get back to being a land of opportunity? Where teams came to build?
Anyways, end rant, here's my response:
"What value do you bring to Cardano? Do you build? Add functional expertise? Genuine question."
I bought ada in 2020 and held til now, that should be enough to have a public opinion. One can only infer that this is the thought process and intent of your reply. But, I’ll play.
I bring value to Cardano in a multitude of ways:
-I bought ADA with USD and Savings
-I own 3,643 Cardano NFTs
-I own 136 different Cardano Fungible Tokens
-I have done over 500,000 personal Cardano transactions and used the chain daily since joining
-Supported hundreds of projects financially
-I have 15,167 X Followers, who I continually post about Cardano related content to
-Attended RareEvo every year since inception, Poker Champion 2025
-I signed the first Cardano constitution and helped draft it
-I am a DRep
-I was a voting member on the first iteration of the intersect product committee
-I've owned my own Cardano based development company, since 2021
-Over 300 Cardano clients served (Minting/Staking/Custom dApps)
-Over 1 million NFTs minted, 200 FTs registered
-Open Source Wallet Connector (Weld)
-Open Source Crosschain Wallet Connector (Weld 2.0) -Open Source Metadata Validator
-CF North American Enterprise Vendor
-Built a free to use API for multiple Cardano core functions
-Built the current #1 NFT Marketplace
-Built a semi custodial wallet (Hodei)
I hope this helps, and I’m sure I forgot some stuff. I am no cracked out dev but I add value to Cardano in many different ways.