Sebastian Pabon - OSC

OSC Criteria:

• Quantitative and qualitative participation in building Open Source tools, Projects, or Organizations. General seats on the OSC may also be filled by senior maintainers or equivalent on a current Cardano Project.

Candidates Full Name

Sebastian Pabon

Are you currently part of the committee they are applying for?

No

Is there a particular role within the committee that you are interested in, if so which and why? (if applicable)

No particular role. My purpose is to contribute to the continuous improvement of the Cardano open-source environment.

What is your experiences within Intersect and Cardano?

Last 3 and a half years, full time in the Cardano ecosystem.

• Collaboration (still in place) and contributor to the following organizations: Catalyst, EMURGO Academy, SWARM, LATAM Cardano community.

• Team member of: Gimbalabs (https://x.com/gimbalabs), MeshJS (https://x.com/meshsdk). Co-founder of: Andamio platform (https://x.com/AndamioPlatform).

• Purpose of my work: lowering the access barrier to Cardano for devs, entrepeneurs, students, businesses, and communities globally, through education and building tooling.

• Intersect's founding member. In the Governance area:

• CIP 1694 workshops co-organizer

• CIP 1694 LATAM workshop participant

• Final workshop in Edinburgh (Scotland) participant

• DReps workshop in Toulouse (France) participant

• DReps workshop in Colombia (my country)

• Constitutional workshop in Colombia.

What are your pledges and plans should you be elected?

Contribute to make Cardano open-source environment more and more collaborative and engaging for current and new builders: a collaborative playground where new projects are attracted and current ones find opportunities to progress and continue their work. Making the right to create and innovate a priority.

Why should the community vote for you?

After years of working closely with the Cardano development community, I believe I have a good understanding of what this wild animal needs to, without being in captivity, contribute to the balance of its surrounding environment. My main contribution will be to be a bridge of communication between the Cardano development community and the Cardano ecosystem in general.

Do you have any other Cardano affiliations or possible conflicts of interests, including you as an individual or an enterprise you are associated with?

No

Are you currently in receipt of or previously received any Intersect or Cardano funding or grant?

I have received some funding from Catalyst.