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Justine Humenansky currently leads meta-governance and delegation relationships at Optimism and previously invested at Playground Global. She has been in the crypto industry since early 2017 and has worked on initiatives with Blockchain at Berkeley, the World Economic Forum, Stanford’s Future of Digital Currency Initiative, the United Nations, a16z’s crypto startup school, Celo Camp, the Algorand European Accelerator, and the Berkeley Blockchain Xcelerator. She was a blockchain lead for UC Berkeley’s recent launch of the Nobel NFTs and helped to form FiatLux DAO, a Berkeley alumni DAO, which won The Fourth Pillar Nobel NFT.
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John Mardlin
John Mardlin, Jon Maurelian is Security engineer at Optimism PBC, and a founding member of ConsenSys Diligence. He is a regular writer and speaker on smart contract security. Prior to joining ConsenSys, John worked at Coinbase.
Amanda Jacobsen
Amanda Tyler is the Head of Marketing for Optimism and was previously the Director of Community for Polygon and Manager of Developer Relations at Google.
Vivian (Wei) Tao
Vivian (Wei) Tao is Head of Global Partnerships at Optimism and was previously a PrimeDAO contributor. She graduated from the University of Michigan.
Xochitl Cazador
Xochitl Cazador is Optimism's Chief of staff and was previously Chief Ecosystem Development Officer at Celo and Director of Strategic Planning and Operations at Cisco. She is good at strategy and operations, and is passionate about social impact and blockchain. She is a graduate of Loyola Marymount University and the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Jinglan Wang
Jinglan Wang is the Co-Founder of Optimism. Previously, she was involved with Handshake, the MIT Bitcoin Club, NASDAQ, and IDEO.
Conner Fromknecht
Conner Fromknecht is Senior Software Engineer at OP Labs. Formerly, Head of Cryptographic Engineering at Lightning Labs, Core Developer at Enigma, Research Assistant at MIT CSAIL.
Mark Tyneway
Mark Tyneway is Cofounder & Systems Engineer at OP Labs. Formerly Software Engineer at Purse.io, that loves to build applications that people use to solve real-world problems.
Mattie Fairchild
Mattie Fairchild is the Head of Founder Community at Polygon and was previously the Head of Developer Relations at OP Labs. She graduated from Rice University.
Ben Jones
Ben Jones is a co-founder of Optimism and a former blockchain associate at Underscore VC. He holds a BA in Physics and Mathematics from Northeastern University.
Liam Horne
Liam Horne is co-founder of ETHGlobal and former CEO of Optimism. Previously, he co-founded L4 Ventures, where he used in-depth crypto economy research to build core infrastructure and help develop key Web 3 projects.