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Paul Young

My name is Paul Young and I would like to ask for your vote in approving my named neuron proposal. Thank you in advance for your support.

Developer forum post for this proposal: [https://forum.dfinity.org/t/named-neuron-proposal-paul-young/15140](https://forum.dfinity.org/t/named-neuron-proposal-paul-young/15140)

Neuron ID: [8777656085298269769](https://dashboard.internetcomputer.org/neuron/8777656085298269769)
GitHub: [https://github.com/paulyoung](https://github.com/paulyoung)
Twitter: [https://twitter.com/py](https://twitter.com/py)

## About Me

I enjoy writing software, designing interfaces, and building developer tools.

I’m involved in various aspects of the Internet Computer (the IC) but that is not something I consider to be a core part of my identity.

I also wouldn’t say that I identify as a “crypto” or “web3” person and I think that gives me a certain perspective on things.

## My Experience

I used to work as a Software Engineer at DFINITY on the SDK, among other things.

You may be familiar with some of my work from that time:

* I wrote the first version of `dfx`.
* I started the Motoko Language Server project.
* I added support for compiling the Motoko compiler to JavaScript, and created a web-based Motoko editor with Language Server support.
* A lot of the first Motoko code I wrote made it into the `motoko-base` package.

More recently, I was a mentor and speaker at Motoko Bootcamp. A recording of my talk is available here:

https://youtu.be/GFenqSGhj7I

I regularly attend the weekly DFINITY Dev community call on Discord and volunteer my time in a number of the technical working groups.

I’m currently working full-time building something on the IC and hope to share more on that publicly very soon. I also want to build useful tools and share them with the developer community.

My philosophy towards building on the IC is that I would prefer to discover challenges and explore solutions to them than to move functionality off-platform.

## Voting

I am an individual and will be voting in my own interests. Those interests may change over time. I have, however, invested a lot of time and effort into the IC and I would like to see it succeed.

I am not committing to manually vote on every proposal but my intent is for my neuron to always vote. It will initially follow ICDevs.org for _Governance_ and the DFINITY Foundation for _All Topics Except Governance_. I will manually vote when I am able to, or when I feel it is necessary.

_Aside: I would like to normalize having named neurons regardless of whether they vote manually or not. If unintended consequences arise from this, I would like to see the NNS improved as a result._

I anticipate that my manual voting will be aligned with improving the experience for people building on the IC and for end users, as well as generally to approve things that I think will make the IC more successful.

## Disclaimer

I reserve the right to change how I vote at any time, including any follow relationships. If at any time you disagree with how I am voting you may unfollow my neuron.


Named Neuron Proposal: Paul Young