Thread by @optimismPBC

While fees on Optimism are steadily decreasing, the number of full-time Optimists is doing the opposite. 🔴✨

A bunch of amazing new people have joined the team recently!

Help us welcome our greatest assets (in no particular order): 🧵

Our new head of Business Development: @boedec! 🥳

Julien headed up growth and partnerships at the likes of Evernote, LinkedIn, and Postmates before deciding to make the transition to Web3.

That's quite the resume Mr. Boedec 👀 (he's also a ping pong Ace).

Next up is our new Integrations Engineer, @TKhasnavis!

Tarun was a full-stack dev at Symantec and Salesforce prior to immersing himself in Solidity and smart contracts.

With vibes as immaculate as his code, we had no choice but to bring him onboard. 😉

We met @trianglesphere at a Geth workshop at ETHCC Paris where he gave an amazing talk about measuring & understanding state access during block execution in Geth.

From that moment on we knew we had to have him and it's been a match made in heaven ever since. 🥰

Speaking of France, we landed one hell of an overqualified Product Designer in the incredibly talented @lanceplaine! 👨‍🎨

You can thank monsieur Lanceplaine for some of our amazing new visuals, including our brand new homepage. 😍

Oui mon ami! Bienvenue!

Pretty pictures are best paired with pretty words, the specialty of @CipherSovereign.

He was a wildland firefighter and copywriter before becoming Content Strategist at Optimism.

From fighting fires to writing fire tweets--quite the journey! 🔥😎

Wonder how OP has such amazing stability and up-time? Meet the wizard behind the curtain: the formidable @mslipper. 🥿🧙‍♂️

Mr. Slipper contributed to countless crypto projects as a co-founder of Kyokan, and was an original author on EIP1559. How did we ever get by without him?

Speaking of wizards, we have our own resident Dune Analytics wizard in the form of the magical @MSilb7. 🔮

Mr. Siberling's knowledge of DeFi and data runs deep. He's also a certified Wordle pro.

Proficient at both words and numbers? That's a rare combo!

Another uniquely talented individual is our Community Manager: @Vonnie610.

Veronica is a Solidity dev with a background in governance and DAOs. She's also the creator and supreme leader of the SUP Nerds. 🤓

You may have joined Web3, but Vee was born for it!

Before he joined Optimism as a Software Engineer @tuxcanfly worked at Purse as a blockchain developer. He's now a Protocol Engineer--not to mention a polymath, renaissance man, and appreciator of fine literature. 📚🧐

We're lucky to have you Mr. Khan!

Another incredibly vital piece to the OP puzzle is Executive Assistant @olive_12345. 🧩

In addition to reminding us all to stay hydrated & keeping us entertained, she helps make our in-person events run on autopilot.

Thanks for looking out Olivia! 💖

Speaking of autopilot, our Senior Distributed Systems Geth Engineer @Inphi worked on autonomous vehicles and robots at Cruise before joining us. 🦾

He’s also a nyctophiliac who likes to wear his sunglasses at night. 😎

Last, but not least, shout out to the incredible people responsible for bringing on such amazing talent.

Our Head of Talent is a new hire herself. @stephanie_vee left a very successful career in Web 2.0 to build out the hottest team in Web3.

Big up Stephanie!

Helping Stephanie with the Herculean task of hiring is fellow talent scout @harpethr. 🏟

Harper has a keen eye for spotting other talented individuals. His own talents include being both an ultimate frisbee star and as chill as can be.

Here's to you Harper! 😎