Ongoing Contributor Nate, Smart Contract Developer

Hi Yam Fam, I am applying as Fulltime Smart Contract Developer.

Role and Responsibilities

• Senior smart contract developer on yam core and products.
• Responsible for maintaining and updating Yam’s core contracts.
• Supporting lead developer in product smart contract development.
• Smart Contract review for Yam and Yam Factory.

Requested Comp

Per month $8,750 in stablecoin and 25,000 BoU YAM vested continuously over 1 year (~2,084 BoU/month).

Biography, Skills and Experience

Nate has been in crypto/defi for 4 years. Prior to jumping into crypto/defi full time, he worked as a software developer doing backend/cloud development on enterprise projects for banks, retailers, non-profits, etc. Initially got interested in Ethereum from an investor perspective, but quickly got interested in the technical side. Initially focused on developing erc20 derivatives, mainly options, later switched to developing a dex aggregator, and worked on several smaller projects between. Proficient in Solidity, Javascript/Typescript (Node), multiple database technologies.

Value add to Yam Team

• Senior smart contract developer.
• Experience with many DeFi protocols from a user and developer perspective.
• Experienced Javascript/Typescript developer.
• Experience creating user facing DeFi protocols.

What I’ve done for Yam

• YDS smart contract development.
• Core protocol development, building out contributor infrastructure.
• Created proposals for syncing eth/yam sushiswap pool (https://forum.yam.finance/t/yip-sync-support-for-sushiswap-yam-eth-pool/615) and updating the protocol to allow farmers to get voting power (https://forum.yam.finance/t/yip-voting-power-for-farmers/608).

What I am planning to do for Yam

• Continue developing and maintaining the Yam protocol.
• Development of future Yam projects, including (but not limited to) YDS.