propose Simon Dudley

[garyschulte]

Name: Simon Dudley
Project: Besu, Web3Signer
Discord Handle: siladu#4265
Proposed Weight: full

Early Contributions

• Oct 2021: Started working on Besu, although mostly private network focussed - hyperledger/besu@012d95c
• Sep 2021: Started working on Web3Signer - Consensys/web3signer@dfac426
• Besu private network and minor mainnet contributions - https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/commits?author=siladu&until=2023-01-01
• Web3Signer contributions and releases - https://github.com/consenSys/web3signer/commits?author=siladu

The Merge

• H1 2022: Prep work for testing Web3Signer on merge testnets, mostly internal Ansible tooling on private repos - Setup Web3Signer on a merge testnet Consensys/web3signer#487
• Jun - August 2022: Tesing Web3Signer on public testnets including 10,000 validators on Goerli - https://www.simondudley.com/posts/testing-the-merge-with-10-000-validators/

H2 2022: Storage Optimisation

• Research and spikes (mostly internal ticket management and docs) related to optimising Besu's approach to storage - Storage Optimization  hyperledger/besu#3693 culminating in:
  • Experimental feature to checkpoint sync post-merge - PoS checkpoint sync hyperledger/besu#4844
  • Experimental feature to prune chain data - Add chain data pruning experimental feature hyperledger/besu#4686

H2 2022: Transition to Mainnet Focus

• Deep dives into Yellow Paper and other specs - https://github.com/siladu/yellowpaper/discussions
• Found a bug in the execution-specs - Sender balance may not be checked when sending a value ethereum/execution-specs#587

Shanghai Tech Lead

• Nov 2022: Became EIP-4895 champion for Besu - https://wiki.hyperledger.org/display/BESU/Shanghai+planning
• Nov 2022: First Withdrawals PR contribution - [WIP] Withdrawals  hyperledger/besu#4552 (comment)
• Dec 2022: Co-authored shanghaiTime support - Support timestamp forks and implement shanghaiTime hyperledger/besu#4743
• Since 2023: Various Shanghai commits - https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/commits?author=siladu&since=2023-01-01
• Tech Lead on Withdrawals and then ultimately Shanghai including the various extras that made it into the upgrade - Shanghai / Withdrawals Epic hyperledger/besu#4746
• Spokesperson for Besu Shanghai progress at interop
• Point of contact and main contributor for withdrawal devnet support

[potuz]

Wish all PRs were like this one

[rolfyone]

That's a great write-up!