Announcing our WAX Guild candidacy

EOS Nation is pleased to announce our candidacy as a WAX Guild on the Worldwide Asset eXchange.


Our mission is to secure EOSIO blockchains with reliable infrastructure and to build a global community equipped with the tools and resources to thrive. We’re committed to leading and contributing to projects that add value to the ecosystem. 

 

We believe that WAX brings an immense amount of value to this ecosystem. With its focus on NFT trading and serving the massive gaming market, WAX is solving real-world problems for real-world users. We believe that the trading of gaming assets is primed to become the first mass adopted blockchain use-case, and that WAX is uniquely positioned to serve as that onramp. 


Since joining the EOSIO ecosystem more than a year-and-a-half ago, EOS Nation has established a strong global community, a robust technical infrastructure and tools that we believe can help propel WAX on its journey.

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Official WAX Guild candidate name

Location of company headquarters and servers

  • Canada

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13,246 members across 16 EOS Nation communities off and online:

Managed by EOS Nation Ambassadors:

Team

Founders

Yves La Rose

CEO
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Daniel Keyes

COO
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Denis Carrière

CTO
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Matthew Darwin

CIO
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Stéphane Bisson

CCO
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Vincent Grenier

CFO
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David Requenez

CPO
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Partners

Nathan Rempel

Parsl & KARMA CTO
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Ambassadors

David Bigley

Philadelphia, USA
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Debraj Ghosh

Bangalore, India
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Dimitar Dzhurenov

Sofia, Bulgaria
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Emmanuel Babalola

Benin, Nigeria
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Felix Mago

Bangkok, Thailand
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Iheb Nassoubi

Tunis, Tunisia
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Masenko Yaroslav

Odessa, Ukraine
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Milot S. Mehmeti

Pristina, Kosovo
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Mpalanyi Vicent Victor

Kampala, Uganda
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Patrick Schmid

Lausanne, Switzerland
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Samuel Joseph

Port Harcourt, Nigeria
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Stuardo Rodriguez

Guatemala
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Thierry Stoudmann

Geneva, Switzerland
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Kaka Blessing Toritseju

Ibadan, Nigeria
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Vijayta Bhatt

Mumbai, India
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Wayne Lloyd

London, UK
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Staff

Keith Mason

Hardware Consultant
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Heinz Martin Breuer​

Director Asia
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Fred Schoell

Developer
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Jan Langheimer

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Interns

Lena Wang

Cheng’du, China

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Davina

Cheng’du, China

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Bennet Yoon

Cheng’du, China

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Relevant background qualifications

Behind EOS Detective is a robust blockchain forensics analysis backbone capable of serving valuable transactional insights. Built and maintained by our team of world class engineers that have over 50 years of combined experience working for technology giants like Facebook, Capital One, and Hewlett Packard, it leverages Elasticsearch and dedicated hardware infrastructure. It’s built to scale with the needs of WAX and ready to expand its analytical capabilities. 

With a large team of 31 people located across 17 countries around the world, it’s no surprise that EOS Nation was described by Brock Pierce as “perhaps the most internationally connected team” in the EOSIO community. Through the help of our fantastic EOS Nation Ambassadors, we have been able to build multiple grassroots communities in diverse areas of the world that includes America (Canada, USA, Guatemala), Africa (Nigeria, Tunisia, Uganda), Europe (Switzerland, Germany, UK, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Kosovo), Asia (China, Korea, India, Thailand)  and Australia!

Infrastructure, security and technical specifications

EOS Nation uses industry standard technical and organizational security measures in connection with the storage, processing and transfer of the data that are designed to protect the integrity of that data and to guard against unauthorized or unlawful access to, use of, or processing of such data.

Our data centres are virtually impenetrable. They all feature two-stage authentication for access—with biometric authentication, such as iris scanners and round-the-clock video monitoring of the perimeter, cabinets, cages and suites, so you can rest assured your data is safe.

Our hardware is fully bare metal. The infrastructure is in guarded and monitored Tier III data centres which are Uptime Institute Tier III certified facilities, guaranteeing 100% power uptime. The network infrastructure is protected by sophisticated power-redundancy, cooling and fire-suppression systems, ensuring business continuity.

Since the EOS Mainnet launch back in June 2018, EOS Nation has proven itself to be a reliable EOSIO Block Producer, having produced over 500,000 blocks with 99.991% round availability.

In fact, EOS Nation sits in the top producer reliability position; in the 42,292 times we were scheduled to produce blocks, we have only ever missed 4 rounds and recovered immediately within 2 minutes (1 round) of it happening every time.

Community benefit project outline

Achievements in blockchain education, social influence and community building:

  • Leader in community building through 128 Events in first 365 Days
  • Maintains a team of 16 Ambassadors located across 12 countries
  • Publishes the EOS Hot Sauce in multiple languages every week
  • Compiled many educational links into “Awesome EOS
  • Collaborated to create a guided intro to EOS in EOSDocs
  • Wrote summaries of all EOS Alliance’s Constitution Referendum Series
  • Organized the “Get Out The Vote” Campaign
  • Created how-to Instructional Video Series
  • EOS dApp Spotlight Video Series
  • Hosted Scholar Testnet leading up to mainnet launch
  • EOS Nation Community Engagement Fund has distributed 9929 EOS, worth $50,029 USD at the time of distribution, to community-led projects and events

Developed user tools and related contributions:

Telegram and node names for community testnet participation

Governance, transparency and accountability

We believe blockchain technology has the potential to bring a new level of transparency and accountability to governance. EOS Nation has been leaders in pushing forward governance since our involvement in drafting the first EOS constitution prior to the mainnet launch. We’re active participants in community discussions and regularly share our views, live and unedited, on EOS Radio, which we’re proud to sponsor. 

We contributed to the development of the EOS Referendum system, brought our learnings over to BOS to develop the BOS Worker Proposal System, and are now experimenting with new voting dynamics in an effort to bring more fairness to reward distribution. 

Transparency and accountability are part of our core values. That’s why we’ve invested in building tools like EOS Detective and the BP Validator. Our team is 100% self-funded and publicly disclosed. We interact with our community directly to face our shared challenges. We live these values. 

1 thought on “Announcing our WAX Guild candidacy”

  1. Bonjour EOSNation Team,

    L’équipe Pragma vous supportera à la hauteur de sa capacité technologique et intellectuelle. Nous sommes persuadés que nos efforts conjugués avec votre équipe impressionnante, permettront à EOSNation d’atteindre le statut de « best Block Producer in the world »

    We shall see !

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Yves La Rose

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) 
Responsibilities include: governance, strategy, communications
Location: Ottawa, Canada

Yves began his journey into computers at a very young age, building his first computer at 6 years old and programming his first game at the age of 7. Yves has always had a deep ideological relationship with computers and their role in decentralization. Yves began his university studies in software engineering, but quickly realized the human aspect was where his heart resided. After completing studies in psychology and pure sciences, Yves bridged the gap by focusing on perceptual and computational neuropsychology.

After starting to mine Bitcoin in 2010, Yves eventually realized that Proof of Work would not be able to provide him with the decentralization dream he was so fond of. Yves used his bitcoins to buy various computer parts and forgot about Bitcoin for a few years until he co-founded a crypto education group in 2016. In his professional life, Yves worked for the Canadian Federal Government as an economist and a policy advisor, and then worked in communications for an elected National political representative in Canada. Yves left National politics to pursue his passion of decentralization, cryptoassets and EOS – founding EOS Nation in February 2018. Yves is fluent in Japanese, having spent the early part of his formative adult years living in Japan.

Daniel Keyes

Chief Operating Officer (COO)
Responsibilities include: product management, operations, community
Location: Toronto, Canada

Prior to founding the first EOS community in Toronto and co-founding EOS Nation, Daniel spent a decade in the financial technology industry working several diverse roles. His extensive experience in customer service, sales, sales coaching, agent training, digital marketing, digital process management (lean green belt), and product management (certified scrum master, certified product owner) eventually lead him to consulting for a blockchain dev shop.

Daniel earned a Bachelor of Journalism from Ryerson University in 2009 and worked as a chase producer intern at Global TV.

Daniel lives by the principles of Truth, Love, and Freedom.

Denis Carriere

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Full-time responsibilities include: block producer infrastructure, enterprise architect
Location: Ottawa, Canada

As a full-stack web & GIS developer and a strong advocate for open source software & open data, Denis is our Chief Technology Officer and is responsible for our node infrastructure.

Before focusing all his efforts on EOS and EOS Nation, Denis was one of the core developers for TurfJS (Advanced geospatial analysis for browsers and Node.js) and a developer for SharedStreets.io (A shared language for the world’s streets). Denis is living and breathing open source with over 4,800+ GitHub commits this year alone. He is also the event organizer for OpenStreetMap and travels internationally/locally attending technology conferences.

Denis also served with the Canadian Armed Forces as a Geospatial Engineer and deployed overseas for two operational missions, one of which was providing humanitarian relief efforts during the 2015 Nepal earthquake.

Matthew Darwin

Chief Infrastructure Officer (CIO)
Responsibilities include: maintaining, testing and optimizing node infrastructure
Location: Ottawa, Canada

For more than 20 years Matthew Darwin has worked in both large and small technology companies (Loran International Technologies, Peregrine Systems, Hewlett-Packard, Hewlett Packard Enterprise).  His roles varied from Linux system administrator, dev-ops engineer, full-stack software development engineer, project manager and team manager up to the level of R&D Director. He has managed projects, both small and large teams (of up to 100 software engineers) including multi-geography teams located in Asia, Europe and North America.

Prior to joining EOS Nation, the projects Matthew worked on focused primarily on IT Service Management, IT Asset Management and Network Discovery/Management. He introduced Agile software development methodologies to teams needing improved process. Matthew spent most of his time on customer-focused engineering: understanding customers’ requirements and then delivering improvements and features to existing products. His passion is business process excellence: removing work by automating manual tasks and modernizing delivery process.

In his free time, he volunteers on various Canadian civic technology projects.

Matthew graduated from Carleton University in 2000 with a degree in Computer Science and am ITIL Foundation certified on IT Service Management.

Stéphane Bisson

Chief Community Officer (CCO)
Responsibilities Include: EOS Nation Ambassador program, Community Engagement
Location: Montreal, Canada

In early 2017, after a deep dive into cryptoassets, Stéphane became an evangelist for Bitcoin, blockchain and decentralization. Through his constant efforts, he was able to grab people’s attention and educate them through casual conversations about these new concepts. Driven by his beliefs in the potential of decentralization, Stéphane was able to get many people interested in this new emerging asset class.  Some of these people, like Denis Carrière and Yves La Rose, eventually left their old industries to join the blockchain revolution.  Stéphane is honored to be able to continue his blockchain education efforts by working with a worldwide team of passionate EOSIO advocates through the EOS Nation Ambassador program.

Vincent Grenier, P.Eng

Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
Responsibilities include: Legal, Financial, French Community Engagement
Location: Sherbrooke, Canada

Passionate about business finance, management and systems, Vincent Grenier worked as a structural engineer where he helped build the accounting and management software.  His interest in investing eventually led him to Bitcoin and then EOSIO.  Combining his enthusiasm with his desire to educate the public about the vast potential of EOSIO, Vincent was a staple of the early online EOS communities. Before the idea of EOS Nation was even born, Vincent was already building and educating EOS communities online and organising local meetups.  While Vincent manages important legal and financial aspects of EOS Nation, he is also still leading various education initiatives.  He is currently working online with other Block Producers to build a cohesive EOSIO educational platform while at the same time continuing to generate educational content for the French community.  He has hosted over 10 meetups across Quebec, France and Switzerland, done multiple interviews with various French communities and created tutorial videos on our EOS Nation FR YouTube page.

David Requenez

Chief Product Officer (CPO)
Responsibilities include: multimedia design, social media management
Location: McAllen, TX, USA

David has a background in business, education, and for the past several years, blockchain.  David worked in education for 8 years until recently going full time into EOS and EOS Nation.  David has worked on several business start-ups in his career, from business consulting to education.  Inspired by great people and always looking towards the future, David became fully captivated by Dan Larimer’s vision of what EOS could become.

David has always been interested in economics, following notable economists like Marc Faber, Peter Schiff and Milton Friedman.  Having lived through the internet bubble of 2001 and the housing crash and financial crisis of 2008, David hopes that the transparency that comes with blockchain could bolster free-market economies and reduce market manipulation.

Nathan Rempel

Smart Contract Developer
Melbourne, Australia

Nathan Rempel is among the most experienced EOS smart contract developers.

Founding partner of GenerEOS, the charitable Block Producer from Australia. Creator of EOSToolkit.io, the first web-based tool-suite that uses Scatter to allow people to use EOS without a command line – made open source so anyone in the community can contribute. Creator of the airgrab concept with a prototypical token called “the poorman token.” Developing, assisting, airdropping, or advising on a large number of projects all across the EOS ecosystem. Mentored at the Sydney and San Francisco EOSIO Global Hackathons, and competed in the London Hackathon. Voted in as the Interim-CTO of AirdropsDAC, with the goal of incubating and accelerating EOSIO projects and further innovating the possibilities that could be achieved through tokenisation and the wonderful advances constantly being made by the entire EOS development community. Developer of the ZKS token, on behalf of AirdropsDAC, which provides much needed temporary CPU at a very affordable price. CTO of KARMA, the social networking dApp that incentivizes good deeds.

Nathan has stepped down from his role at GenerEOS to focus on his passion of smart contract development. Given EOS Nation’s strength in building networks of value, his passion is perfectly at home on our team.

David Bigley

Philadelphia, PA, USA
Joined November 2018

Being a lover of freedom and entrepreneurship, David Bigley started a landscaping business in 2013 after earning his bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice with a minor in Business Studies. Intrigued with Bitcoin and the implications of a decentralized, trustless monetary system, he began pursuing a deeper understanding of the blockchain space beginning in the summer of ’17. A new passion had been ignited.  The implications of Moore’s Law revealed to him the importance and urgency of steering technology in a positive direction to empower people and enrich the human experience.

Before long, David came across an interview with the EOSIO creator, Dan Larimer. Dan’s philosophy of voluntary association and life mission “to find free market solutions to secure life, liberty, and property for all” greatly resonated with him. Not only was Dan’s philosophy aligned with his own, but Dan’s expertise and success in building other projects like Bitshares & Steemit was incredibly promising. The EOSIO implementation of solutions to the problems in scalability, governance, adaptability, and the incentive structures present on the EOSIO platform made it apparent that EOSIO was in a unique position to be the leading infrastructure for innovation of decentralized applications. David is happy to be working with EOS Nation to grow the EOS community in the Philadelphia region.  David’s purpose backed with passion is to educate others on all things EOSIO!

Debraj Ghosh

Bangalore, India
Joined September 2018

Debraj Ghosh has been working in the IT industry for over 16 years, currently working at Onmobile Global Ltd as a Senior IT Manager (6+years as a Senior Manager).  Debraj is a keen planner, strategist & implementer with expertise in managing data center and network infrastructure, managing operations and implementing new technology for streamlining operations.  He has been involved with his current company from the start, helping it grow from a startup into the established company it current is. For the last year and a half, Debraj has been learning and investing in cryptoassets and excited to join the decentralized revolution.

Dimitar Dzhurenov

Dimitar Dzhurenov (aka Dimo) is one of the most active EOS community members in Southeastern Europe.

His passion for innovation lead him to the discovery of blockchain technology in the summer of 2017 when he found out about Bitcoin and later Ethereum. Realizing the enormous potential of the decentralized applications pushed him to become an ethereum blockchain developer.

Soon after, he began his second journey in the blockchain space with EOS.

Two years later he’s one of the leading Ethereum and EOS developers in Bulgaria and his company “Infinite X Labs” is the first to introduce EOS to the crypto space in the region. With a renewed understanding for the power of the EOSIO community, he also founded EOS Bulgaria – a project to develop and grow the EOSIO community in Central and Southeastern Europe.

Emmanuel Babalola

Benin, Nigeria
Joined in April 2018

After graduating from the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of Uyo, Nigeria, Emmanuel Babaloa built a successful career in IT sales. Overtime, he rose up to the position of Vice President of sales in one of the top tech startups in Lagos, Nigeria. However, he has since then he has quit his previous job to invest all of his time with cryptoassets.  Since joining the crypto revolution fulltime, Emmanuel has been very busy,  investing in several projects,  founding the Crypton Africa organisation, becoming the Product Strategist at Steemfuse and also the CIO @bankonsteemit.  Motivated by his desire to empower Africa through blockchain, Emmanuel’s activities are aimed at accelerating blockchain adoption as much as possible. Knowing Dan Larimer from previous platforms like Bitshares and STEEM, Emmanuel was quick to recognize the potential of EOSIO and now dedicates a lot of his time educating investors and developers on the potential of the EOSIO platform.

Felix Mago

Bangkok, Thailand
Joined in November 2018

Felix Mago is the author of the “Bitcoin Handbook” and has worked in the Blockchain space since 2014, developing a vast network of contact in the German and SE-Asian Blockchain ecosystem. Since then, he has been involved in several Blockchain and ICO projects. His current home base is Bangkok, Thailand.

Felix is also Co-Founder of the Dash Embassy Thailand and Co-Founder of FUTERIO, a Southeast Asia based gateway to Blockchain, ICOs and OTC brokerage. He is responsible for ICOs and corporate Blockchain projects.

Felix is also head of the German “Blocktech Institute”. This Berlin-based Blockchain academy helps corporations from all sectors finding their Blockchain potentials.

He used to work as Head of Innovation Management at QuadriO Berlin, an official SAP partner, providing clients end-to-end digitization and innovation solutions.

Iheb Nassoubi

Tunis, Tunisia
Joined January 2019

“The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic.” – Peter Drucker

Along with a deep dive in crypto, this Peter Drucker quote was a turning point for Iheb Nasso, motivating him reskill into data science and transition away from his previous background in hospitality management.  The combination of being a life long learner with interests in monetary systems, banking and the economy of debt led Iheb to learn about blockchain and it’s emerging applications.  According to Iheb, Time and Freedom are the most valuable assets in this world, and he is proud to be investing them into blockchain and the EOSIO ecosystem.

Masenko Yaroslav

Odessa, Ukraine
Joined in August 2018

Graduating with a Master of Business Administration from the President’s Academy of Ukraine, Mashenko Yaroslav is an entrepreneur that runs his own bakery and sneakers shop in Odessa. As an artist, he is in the process of building a cartoon studio while maintain his passion for writing and listening to music. Mashenko believes in a decentralized future and want to make sure his country is an active participant in the blockchain revolution.  Mashenko believes Joining the EOS Nation Ambassador team is a great opportunity for him to build the future of his country through blockchain education.

Milot S. Mehmeti

Pristina, Kosovo
Joined May 2018

Eleutheromaniac. A cryptoasset investor and trader by day, Milot Mehmeti is also the proud owner of Kosovo’s first business to accept cryptoassets as payment and is the founder of @wearesatoshi.io. Hearing about blockchain technology in late 2015, he was fascinated by its potential impact it could have on the world.  Jumping in with both feet, he started mining, trading and learning as much as possible.  Proof of Work never seemed like the best consensus algorithm and he was weary of the high levels of energy consumption needed simply to secure and validate.  Seeing the high levels of pollution in his country from the many coal-fired power stations kept reminding him of the unsustainability of proof of work, eventually leading him to divest and sell his mining equipment.

Milot then focused his attention on green projects and I saw EOSIO as a third generation blockchain technology that was best suited for the decentralized solution he was looking for.  Milot dedicates his life to help spread economic freedom, especially in his country of Kosovo where it is desperately needed.  He has built a large community of Albanian crypto enthusiasts and he a leading crypto influencer in his country.  Although Kosovo is the only European country without freedom of movement, the hope is that through cryptoassets and EOS the population is able to become global, at least with our devices and imagination. We imagine being equal and EOS decentralized governance will help that come true.

Mpalanyi Vicent Victor

Kampala, Uganda
Joined April 2018

While studying Law School at Uganda Christian University, Mpalanyi joined the crypto space in early 2017.  Mpalanyi has also been involved in building two tech startups: RentHostels in Uganda and Planit.ng/pro in Nigeria.

In 2018, Mpalanyi made a commitment to get fully involved in the crypto movement and recognized EOSIO as his blockchain platform of interest.  Joining the EOS Nation team as an Ambassador from Uganda, Mpalanyi is committed to building his community through educational efforts relating to EOSIO technology.  He hopes that his expert knowledge can contribute to the growth of cryptoassets in his country while as the same time protecting his community from scammers and bad projects.

Mpalanyi is also working on getting EOS listed on the Binance Uganda exchange.

Patrick Schmid

Lausanne, Switzerland
Joined October 2018

Patrick discovered the Blockchain in 2016 when he first started playing around with smart contracts on Ethereum.  In November 2017, Patrick realized that Ricardian contracts and the “Intent of the Code” could deliver Everyone’s Open Society (EOS) and with it bring about a new way to transact across borders with equality, on a censorship resistant and governed blockchain.

As a passionate EOS enthusiast, Patrick is driven by his desire to create decentralized solutions by coding interfaces and tools for the community using the EOSIO technology. As an Ambassador for EOS Nation, Patrick is helping to grow EOSIO adoption in the French and German regions of Switzerland by hosting events and educating his community. Patrick wants to facilitate the transfer of EOSIO knowledge and does so by attending various local networking meetups and events on Bitcoin and blockchain in general.

Involved in the IT Sector since 1995 as Software Engineer doing CRM – ERP – BI for several companies in Switzerland, Patrick founded his IT Consulting Company in 2006 and has consistently delivered “an all-in-one Platform with a Swiss made Toolkit” tailored to the customer’s need in sectors such as – retail PoS, industry, environment, healthcare and other ‘smart’ sectors.

Samuel Joseph

Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Joined April 2018

Samuel Joseph has proven himself as a leading blockchain activist in his home country of Nigeria. Before joining EOS Nation, Sam had already built up a local blockchain community, teaching them about the potential of networks like Steemit and BitShares.  Inspired by Dan and the potential of EOSIO, Sam is now contributing to the growth of EOSIO by being one a top EOS Nation Ambassador.  Since becoming an Ambassador, Sam has hosted several meetups, attended blockchain conferences, been invited to speak at various events and eventually launched the EOS Nation Blockchain Hub. This space is a drop-in center, open to those who want to learn and build on the EOSIO platform and used as a base for Samuel’s blockchain education efforts.  He was also recently recognized by Forbes for his contributions to the EOSIO community.

Stuardo Rodriguez

Guatemala City, Guatemala
Joined April 2018

Promoter of open collaboration, Stuardo Rodríguez is a developer of open source projects, lead in open data architectures, activist in open government implementations, and blockchain/decentralized open ledger technologies ambassador.

In his career totally focused on web system development he has successfully accumulated vast experience in the required web technologies such as JavaScript, SQL, PHP, HTML, CSS, server management, load balancing, high performance email services. agile development methodologies, design patterns, unit testing and continuous integration.

Stuardo Rodríguez has worked for different companies in USA, Mexico and Guatemala, leading big web development teams, with DBAs, web developers, web designers, and QA testers. He now telecommutes for companies in USA, Mexico, Spain, Netherlands, and more, developing all kind of web systems like content management systems, blogs, e-commerce, custom made systems CRMs and ERPs. Lately he’s developing blockchain solutions based on EOSIO, where he found the best solution to bring blockchain to the masses.

Thierry Stoudmann

Geneva, Switzerland
Joined April 2018

After graduating from the Benedict School in Geneva (Commercial) in 1998, Thierry Stoudman had the intention to become an asset manager and started his career two months later in large swiss bank. For a period of 3 years, he was able to understand and experience how the financial world functioned.  As his consciousness expanded about the finality of his everyday responsibilities, Thierry wanted to stay aligned with his values which of honesty, integrity and transparency.  This led him to take the decision of leaving the banking industry, starting a new chapter in his life and dedicating his time to try to change our world and denounce the rigged economic system.  He joined what is known in the French speaking world as the « altermondialist » movement. Through this movement, in 2002, during the counter-info summit in Geneva, Thierry was introduced to the world of Linux and learned about the Free Software Foundation for the first time. Studying his philosophy, Thierry came to admire the work of Richard Stallman and was naturally attracted by the decentralized revolution that Bitcoin promised. Discovering Bitcoin in 2013 and then EOSIO in 2017, Thierry has since been fascinated by EOSIO and strongly believes it has the power to change the world by delivering the next, secure vision of the internet.  Hosting meetups and workshops in his hometown of Genera, Thierry is proud to be doing his part to educate his local community on the potential of EOSIO!

Kaka Blessing Toritseju (Tojukaka)

Ibadan, Nigeria
Joined in April 2018

As a cryptoassets trader, investor and content creator, Tojukaka is passionate about blockchain technology education and building communities. He believes that there is no virtue in poverty, ignorance, and fear. People are ignorant of their own rights, powers, and liberty he believes we can reduce/eliminate poverty and fear by providing people with the right education. Discovering Steem Steem in March 2017, this was his first exposure to Dan Larimer’s work.  Since then, Tojukaka plunged himself into the world of cryptoassets. Organizing many cryptocurrency meet-ups with the purpose of educating people and building communities, Tojukaka is a leader in his community. Driven by Dan Larimer’s vision, which is to find free-market solutions to secure life, liberty, and property, Tojukaka believes that we can use technology to make life better for everyone, not just the elites. He believes in an open source decentralized economy and wants to live in a world where more people are more enlighten and free. Being an EOS Nation Ambassador allows him to continue to use his voice, his skills and every possible resource to make sure that his community is fully involved with this EOSIO project and not left behind by the coming decentralized revolution.  Tojukaka is creating awareness and providing education to his community by organizing meet-ups, hackathons, producing EOSIO content and even being accepted as one of the members of SiBAN, an organisation aimed at promoting blockchain adoption in Nigeria.

Vijayta Bhatt

Mumbai, India
Joined November 2018

A Technology geek by heart, Vijayta has emerged as an influencer by leading the development of multiple blockchain based platforms across different geographies and business domains.

She is competent in the core and emerging blockchain platforms (Ethereum, Hyperledger, Stellar and EOS) She is credited with deployment of several Distributed Applications and has experimented with tangle and private blockchains.

In 2017, during one such research, she stumbled upon EOS. It grabbed her attention as it was the first one to introduce feeless transaction which is essential for mass adoption and to build larger scalable application.

Her current profile includes solutioning and architecting setup of distributed ledger technology, project planning and providing technical trainings.

She is a seasoned developer with vast experience in Android SDK, IOS  SDK, Node JS, Mongo DB. As a project lead, she drives the organization’s blockchain and tech team guiding them on the implementation strategy.

Vijayta has founded a local EOSIO community in Mumbai and is actively engaging with the blockchain community to foster interest around EOSIO.  She manages a quickly growing meet-up group with over 78 enthusiastic members.

When she is not coding, she is found parenting her beautiful little daughter.

Wayne Loyd

London, UK
Joined in April 2018

Wayne has worked with some of the most influential technology consultancies, providing small and large-scale digital transformation projects for some of most influential brands and financial institutions across the world. Having done business successfully, with clients spanning over 20 countries he understands the common themes that blockchain can help solve. Having studied Blockchain at Oxford University and Cryptocurrency economics and blockchain disruption at The London School of Economics he has deep domain knowledge of the tech and the wider crypto asset industry making him an influential member of the UK Blockchain community. In addition to the work he does for EOS Nation he also acts an advisor for the All Party Parliamentary Group and is a founder member of the Oxford Blockchain Foundation.

Keith Mason

Hardware Consultant
Location: Ottawa, Canada

Keith Mason’s obsession with computer hardware started off as a hobby for him. Taking apart IBM XT and PS/2 machines in the 80’s and continuing throughout the years, this eventually turned into his first computer job, working with small campus networking and distance education (video/audio conferencing) in the last 90’s. His experience with operating systems eventually led to a job doing QA for desktop application and building test labs. He remined in software R&D for 10 years, moving from desktop applications to enterprise software and from QA to Software Engineering. During this time, he also remained responsible for R&D infrastructure and systems administration. After Keith’s time in software R&D, he began to work as a consultant for enterprise software with a focus on IT Discovery applications in large environments.

During his years working in software R&D and consulting, he maintained his interest in hardware, taking up projects for specialty machine builds and keeping up his home lab. Example projects include builds for animation, A/V, medical offices, and crypto mining. After seeing the potential of the EOS project, he is excited to be involved with EOS Nation and advise them on their bare-metal infrastructure needs.

Heinz Martin Breuer

Regional Director of Asia
Location: Chengdu, China

After creating a DIY magazine about environmental protection, Heinz Martin became part of the German Green Party by being a founding member of the local green party for minors. However, it soon became apparent that existing political structures we’re too stiff and limited for him so he merged his political activism with art and music, leading him to educational efforts such as handing out educational material at music festivals, creating political graffiti, being the front man of a music band, organizing protest rallies on pressing issues and doing art installations at the 27th G8 summit held in Genoa, Italy. 

Inspired by Joseph Beuys’ concept of the Social Sculpture, Martin studied art at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, where he graduated in 2008 with a master’s degree in Oil Painting.

Taking part in the academy’s philosophy programs, he wrote essays about futurism, robotics and gene manipulation but also about the historical differences between the western and eastern art philosophies.  Moving to China after these studies and integrating himself as much as possible, Martin started organizing events and culture exchange programs all over China. This led him to start an artist agency, an event management company and a screen print studio.

While living behind the Great Chinese Firewall and therefore learning about VPNs and the Tor project, he quickly stumbled upon Bitcoin.

Since then his interest in the potential of cryptoassets continued to grow until he decided to host a early crypto meetup at one of his other businesses, the Chengdu Co-Working Space Berlin Haus.

When EOSIO presented solutions to major issues like scalability, transaction cost and energy efficiency he felt the need to get more involved and applied and joined the EOS Nation Ambassador program.  While volunteering as an EOS Nation Ambassador, Martin was critical to the success of Yves LaRose’s first trip to China, proving himself to be an extremely valuable to EOS Nation. He was then hired as EOS Nation’s Regional Director of Asia where he currently leads a team of 3 interns as they continue to build the EOS Nation Asian communities.

Fred Schoell

Developer
Location: Karlsruhe, Germany

Fred recently got his master’s degree in computer science with a strong focus on Big Data and IT Security and is now ready to put that knowledge into practice. With experience from previous projects in micro controller programming, android app development, web design, backend architecture, big data analytics and server infrastructures, Fred already is an allrounder in the field of software development and operations. His first station after his studies lead him to Toronto, where he started – and still is – working as CTO for EOSindex. This is also where he established relations with multiple members of the EOS community and EOS Nation in particular, who he is now happy to support as a contracted software developer.

Jan Langheimer

Developer
Location: Freiburg, Germany

Jan is one of the early members of the EOS community and many know him from EOSindex.io which he founded. His first experiences with blockchain technology was with Bitcoin in 2012 and in 2016 Jan experimented with a small Ethereum mining rig.  With many years experience in web development, Jan always strives for cutting edge technology and a great user experience.

Jan likes to explore the world and has traveled for work and for joy all over the world. Joining the EOS Nation team as a software developer was the next logical step to keep pushing all together our united goal: making EOS a huge success!

Lena Wang

Intern
Cheng’du, China

In 2015, Lena came to Chengduwhich is a beautiful city in China and began her university study in Computer Science in Sichuan University( SCU ). And she gets the full scholarship to continue her study for Master’s degree.  In 2016, she served as the vice minister of Girl’s Department of College of CS of SCU and cheerleader of football team of College of CS. In 2017, she served as the president of Sports Analysis Society of SCU. During this period, she  acumulated a lot of experience in organizing activities.

Due to her major, she has a strong interest in blockchain.  And she is honored to be able to help EOS Nation China community  grow by writing, translation, organizing events and communication.  She has also believed that university students are one of the powerful driving for social and technology development. So she currently focuses on popularizing blockchain basics among university students and  let more students get involved in building a decentralized future. In December of 2018, she organized the ‘EOS Sticker Design Competition’  in SCU and the amount of participants almost reached 100.

Davina

Intern
Cheng’du, China

Davina’s interest for blockchain has been on the rise from July,2018, after attending  several blockchain meetups in Chengdu. As an English major, she’s enthusiastic and always eager to be exposed to  new ideas. She’s born a talent for connection — She loves talking to people and listen to exotic stories, and she also shows great fondness for writing. She owns a self media platform named Davina’s Hotpot English, presenting a world of inspirational and interesting  stories.

She’s now making use of her talents as an intern for EOS Nation. She has been contributing to the EOS Nation community by being a translator and editor , an interviewer and  writer. Now she’s in charge of the WeChat official accounts for EOS Nation (EOS Nation and EOS Nation SWC) as well as the official Sina Weibo account(EOS Nation柚子王国)for EOS Nation. Meanwhile, for our EOS Nation Ambassador Program, she has been interviewing the ambassadors and writing articles featuring their stories with EOS Nation.

Bennet Yoon

Intern
Cheng’du, China

Bennet Yoon first came to China back in 2015, started to study international business in SWUFE. In 2017 summer, He got interested in blockchain technology by the inspiration given by Alan Kim, current a-SSIST Business school’s crypto economy professor. After several months of work experience in blockchain media platform, he co-founded the blockchain student club in SWUFE at June 2018. He is in charge of managing general club activities as a vice chairman and educating Korean and other international students who are new to the technology. Currently he is co-organizing Crypto Mondays Chengdu, international crypto- and blockchain-related event in Chengdu.