Member Request

[ordian]

I've been working on the Parachains consensus team (aka Parachains-core) since mid 2020, but my early ecosystem contributions were to https://github.com/paritytech/parity-common which contained core crates shared between Ethereum (called parity at the time) and Substrate clients and dates back to early 2019, that I've been maintaining since then. As a student of the guide, I've designed and implemented validator discovery used by collators and validators, grid topology for optimized networking, disputes rewards and slashing mechanism, introduced Prometheus metrics to Polkadot, implemented several subsystems and reviewed most of them.

Some notable PRs:

• uint: faster div paritytech/parity-common#126 (one of the early ones, had some fun optimizing uint to match the performance of GMP in the worst cases)
• runtime/disputes: slashing paritytech/polkadot#5535
• improved gossip topology paritytech/polkadot#3270
• NetworkBridge: validator (authorities) discovery api paritytech/polkadot#1699
• validator_discovery: less flexible, but simpler design paritytech/polkadot#3052
• impl approval distribution paritytech/polkadot#2160
• Introduction of session info: past-session validator discovery APIs paritytech/polkadot#2009
• Chain API subsystem paritytech/polkadot#1498
• initial prometheus metrics paritytech/polkadot#1536
• (the code is private, but this is useful) https://povs.today

Besides PRs, I've reviewed numerous PRs (incl. finding issues in Grand Architect's code), spent countless hours investigating and fixing issues on testnets, participated in technical discussions, interviewing, onboarding new people and knowledge sharing.

Given the above, I'd apply to either Dan 4 or 3 at your discretion.

[rphmeier]

I support @ordian for III Dan

[gavofyork]

I'm glad to see there's a PR which is sufficiently large as to be considered "substantial" by the manifesto's definition of III Dan requirements. Based on this, the volume of core code written and the expertise which it requires, together with the fact that non-trivial contributions date back to early 2019 (even if not full-time), I think III Dan rank is perfectly reasonable.

[ordian]

even if not full-time

For the record, I've been working at Parity for over 4 years full-time, but initially mostly on ethereum-related code.