I would like to contribute as a community committee member. I bring diverse experiences from law to software engineering at startups which suits assessing new crypto teams, as well as navigating governance and accountability considerations.
I’m an entrepreneurial investor from Australia. I’m naturally curious and have made my journey about self-development and learning.
To give my biography and qualifications:
- I studied law at Monash University in Melbourne graduating on 2006.
- I started my career practising commercial law in Melbourne for 2 years focusing on company, business and intellectual property.
- After leaving law in 2010, I started a fashion film festival and produced over 50 fashion films.
- From around 2013 onwards I taught myself programming. I have worked as a software engineer for the years since, primarily building web applications (front and back-end) with higher level languages like JavaScript and Python. Nearly all of my work has been with early stage startups, both in-person and 100% remote.
- In 2018 my friend and I started a company mining Zcash in Melbourne. We still run the mining operation. We received an innovation tax credit from the Australian Tax Office in the first year.
- I now manage the investments of the company as well as my personal account. The main approach is to invest in early ideas.
- I am one of the original guvnors (my handle was previously @almccann on Discord) and I helped influence the economic design of the current staking contract by suggesting the “PERP-denominated USD fees” interim step.
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