RPC DAO Elections - Q1 2022

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Candidate List:

RPC DAO Council Q1 2022 Candidate: Heaven's Wail

I want to announce my candidacy for the future RPC council. What are my goals: Offering multiple RPC-Servers, hosted by myself and in data-centers in my region Sharing my knowledge by creating multiple guides for the community on creating RPC-Servers Helping out by answering questions and onboarding new Community-RPCs Discussing improvements with the harmony core team and council to steady improve the overall process of its work to increase the global RPC-performances further About Me: I…

RPC DAO Council Q1 2022 Candidate: I Bless the Rains

Hey, my name is Nick, and I’m running for a seat on the RPC DAO Council. For the past ten years, I have been actively helping improve open source software across many platforms. I have continuously helped drive innovation, implement change, and advocate for best practices in the related fields. I currently work in bleeding-edge cloud design, automation, and management for Electronic Arts. The primary focus of my campaign will be architecting the globally redundant geolocation-aware infrastructu…

RPC DAO Council Q1 2022 Candidate: James - StakeIt.ONE

Hi guys, it’s James from StakeIt.ONE Validator (aka jtrag). I would love to serve as a Governor in the RPC DAO and I greatly appreciate anyone who supports me in doing so! If anyone has any questions or concerns, feel free to post replies here. I appreciate constructive criticism and love to be as transparent as possible with everyone. Most of you may know me. I have been a member of this community for some time now. As a delegate, I was very active in this community and have always helped…

RPC DAO Council Q1 2022 Candidate: pikpokt

Hi All, I’m Adam from Pocket Network and NachoNodes. I’ve been tangentially involved in the Harmony ecosystem for some time now. Pocket is a decentralized RPC provider that serves part of Harmony’s traffic. Pocket has been working closely with Harmony since the fall of 2021 and has helped with RPC firefighting directly with the Harmony team. With Pocket being an active contributor to Harmony RPC, it seems natural to continue to support as a governor in the RPC DAO. Further, as a Partner of Nac…

RPC DAO Council Q1 2022 Candidate: Rich Cuellar-Lopez

Greetings. I would like to contribute to the RPC DAO and continue to give to the Harmony community. Who am I? My name is Rich CL. I learned about Harmony in Summer 2021 and have hooked since. Since then I have been involved with Harmony through my role at Pocket Network. I head up the Marketplace team and have worked hand-in-hand with the Harmony validator committee to get them to share full node service, members of the Core team to scale up DevOps collaboration, and have helped bring over 25…

RPC DAO Council Q1 2022 Candidate: Austin from Hermes DeFi

Hello everyone! My name is Austin Hovland, and I’m making my formal announcement to run to be a member of the RPC 2.0 DAO. I’m the CMO and Validator/RPC operator at Hermes DeFi, a platform dedicated to making decentralized finance easy. We have been providing our RPC to the public for a number of weeks now and we have worked hard to make it a reliable experience! You can find the details about it here. I am currently wrapping up my PhD in Bioinformatics and have extensive experience with Linux…

RPC DAO Council Q1 2022 Candidate: Angry_Boo

Hi, I’m new to the harmony community but somewhat experienced at maintaining harmony explorer nodes. I’m very enthusiastic about delivering high quality RPC services to users of the harmony network. I’d be happy to be a part of the conversation for this effort. I have self funded explorer nodes on bare metal servers in the US used for my own use and as part of the pocket network. (I am independent and not a part of the pocket team). I am setting up additional harmony explorer nodes in Asia a…