BFP-44: Hire Lawne Bean

Proposer: Dumpling

Proposal: Hire Lawne Bean as a Part-time Middleware Developer in the Engineering Department.

Resume: Lawne Bean is a full-stack software engineer and will be joining the Middleware team at Beanstalk Farms. They are currently working as a Product Manager, but they have spent a majority of their career working as a software engineer (mobile & backend) at various startups in both the micro mobility space and within web3.

Role Definition: Lawne Bean will work closely with funderberker on Middleware responsibilities including but not limited to:

• Take on a major role in designing and developing the typescript SDK;
• Efficiently gather and calculate state of Beanstalk Protocol and its users;
• Significantly simplify UI development;
• Enable third party developers to easily integrate with Beanstalk;
• Simplify the internal technical process of expanding to new LPs and DeFi projects;
• Coordinating with the subgraph developers to ensure availability of data through the SDK; -Designing a fallback system in TS for the subgraph event data; -Standardizing off-chain data calculations via implementations in ts; and
• Standardize data typing throughout Beanstalk internal code via implementation in ts developing the frontend application. This will include re-architecting and implementing a new frontend codebase, optimizing page calls to speed up latency, and organizing the existing code. This is important for both scalability and for open-sourcing at the end of Q1.

Payment: 6066 Beans per month, paid twice per month, as of February 16th, 2022, though Q1 2022.

Commitment: Part-time (20+ hours/week). At will. To be potentially expanded with mutual agreement in Q2 2022.