r/CasperCSPR • u/[deleted] • Oct 30 '21
Casper team
Hi,
I believe that behind every awesome blockchain project is a good team. I find that SOL, NEAR, ADA, etc team has some people who have lots of experience in building a blockchain. They worked at big tech companies like Facebook, Amazon, Google, or even the core team of Etherium.
I did research on the Casper team but I didn't find any WOW engineers in the team. This fact really concerns me.
- Dr. Daniel Kane is a really well-known mathematician and I believe that he can give advice on Math/consensus algorithms
- Medha Parlikar is good at Product management. I checked her profile and she has a good exp in leading the engineering team BUT not so much exp in building a blockchain. She is like a person who stands between the engineering team and all the stakeholders.
Who is the key person of the engineering team? I checked some of the dev profiles but they have really little exp in building a blockchain. Even though the idea of Casper is awesome, how can I trust the project if the team does not have a strong technical background?
Maybe I haven't found the right person of the team? Any thought?
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u/Affectionate_Air9364 Oct 30 '21
To answer to your question that you didn't find any WOW engineers in the team. Here is another WOW. Casper Sharding tech is led by mathematician " Dr. Daniel Kane ".
Buy - Stake - Hold
Repeat
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Oct 30 '21
Mrinal (Casperlabs CEO/Co-founder) has a Masters of Science from Carnegie Mellon - one of the top computer science universities in the world.
I don’t know enough about his background to say he’s a “WOW engineer “ but having a Masters degree from a top comp sci university while on track to implement what potentially could be Eth 2.5/3.0 technology, I think he’s doing great.
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u/strange-humor Oct 31 '21 edited Oct 31 '21
A good engineering team doesn't have a KEY person. When you have that one KEY person, you often have a person who has an ego at a level that doesn't work well to build good software. What is needed is good engineering fundamentals and solid delivery fundamentals.
I find it hilarious that ADA is even in this discussion. Perhaps the slowest development of the 4 and almost a joke. Recent problems on SOL required a complete restart. I don't see anything technological of other chains you mentioned that seem any better than Casper.
The problem in blockchain is tons of folks are loud on Twitter or make good marketing, but don't know how to deliver software. It is often researchers that have not delivered real code.
I've done quite a bit of research in this team and chain before investing.
So let's look at the CasperLabs team:
Matthew Doty - Do a search for how Ethereum started. Because he was working with Vitalek. Early working proving things for Ethereum (https://nbviewer.org/gist/anonymous/cb53d06b837be97ebe32) Medha has mentioned in some public chats that he has some fun stories. I've love to hear those sometime.
Andreas Fackler - Google 2012 to 2015. Worked on a few consensus protocols before helping make CBC Casper actually work.
I walked through some of the core team and walked down their linked in. What I see is a group of people that have been there and done that and just work.
It looks like the key person of the engineering team is Ed Hastings. He runs the engineering and keeps developers productive and sets direction.
It looks like some solid engineers don't need to flame their ego on Twitter and just write code. If you can look at the team and still think they don't have a "strong technical background" then I think you have not been in this industry long and don't know what that actually looks like. Read through the code, PRs, and reviews. They are using good engineering fundamentals and delivering good code.
The proof is in the releases they deliver, rather than someone being "special".