Giv Parvaneh has been in engineering leadership roles for over 20 years at startups and at Amazon, BBC, and AOL in Silicon Valley, London, and Sydney. Giv co-founded two successful VC-backed startups and has gone through the highly prestigious AngelPad and Salesforce incubators. Giv is a full-stack engineer and entrepreneur having served as CTO, Director of Engineering, Solutions Architect, Senior Software Engineer, DevOps Engineer and everything in between.
Giv holds a Bachelor’s in Sociology and Philosophy from Macquarie University in Sydney and he is in the process of completing his Master’s in Computer Science at Birkbeck University of London. He is also a musician and filmmaker and enjoys creating original scores for independent films.
Upcoming Plans
- Monthly Deliverables: 2021 Oct
- Complete handoff from Sahil
- Launch Aragon and DAOHaus on Harmony
- Launch Curve and BTC Bridge (find launch partner such as Sovryn for BTC Bridge)
- Quarterly Milestones: 2021 Q4
- Help offload more responsibilities from Li
- More outreach to partners and apps for porting to Harmony
- Identify an Analytics solution like Dune
- Yearly Planning: 2022 Q1 - Q4
- Make Harmony the most developer-friendly blockchain in the world
- Attend at least 10 blockchain events including EthDenver, DevCon, EthCC
- Outbound grants. Identify and fund 4 projects to port per month
Past 6-Month Achievements
- crazy.one dev and launch
- BTC Bridge specs/documentation
- Launched and managed Developer Captains + weekly dev meetings
- Added several dev-ops monitoring solutions such as status page, uptime bot, RPC monitoring, and cleaned up PagerDuty
- Created https://dev.harmony.one/
- Created and managed several bounties
- Hired 2 developers to work on DAO tools and security audits
- Helped manage DeFi hackathon, websites, airtable applications
- Secured partnerships with Aragon and DAOHaus
- Helped launch Curve and Aave
- Launched Developer DAO
- Contributed to and managed 1wallet development
Week ending 10/29/21
- RPC/Pocket troubleshooting and config
- Several snapshot spaces created
Week ending 10/22/21
- Met with Binance Labs on incubation collab
- Coordinated Snapshot bug fixes and strategy addition
- Sync on .country product plans
- Multisig operations planning and refactoring
- Met with and reviewed several grant applications
- Snapshot QA
- Aragon QA
- Set up language pages
Week ending 10/15/21
- Spoke to Dune Analytics and planned for possible future integration
- Multisig + 1wallet setup + testing
- Hackathon closing ceremony
- Spec and review tasks for Ivo and Victa
- Wrapped up Developer DAO elections and announced winners
- Launched Curve and coordinated announcement
- Spoke to Visa research team for possible future collaboration
- Vietnam blockchain AMA
- 3 more grants researched and approved
- Met with Chainlink re launch
- Met with Sovryn re BTC bridge launch partnership
- Prepared staff performance reviews and bonuses
- Multisig outage investigation
Week ending 10/8/21
- Scheduled meeting with Visa and studied research
- Ran all-hands, posted video publicly on youtube/forum
- Met with DAOHaus for port
- 8 grant applications reviewed
- Judged 33 hackathon entries
- Developer meeting and Dev DAO voting wrap-up, on 10/8/21
- Scheduled tasks for Victa and Snapshot voting changes
- QA'd 1wallet/gnosis
- QA'd BTC bridge