Candidate Name / Handle: Daniel (Novin)
Self-Nomination or Nominated By: Nominated by Hung Vu
Relevant Background (max ~100 words): Daniel has been a principal architect behind several of Radiant’s structural improvements post-exploit. He strengthened operational security standards and led improvements to protocol economics. With experience spanning software development, DevOps, statistics, data science, and game theory, his work exemplifies innovative yet disciplined engineering, strong risk awareness, and alignment with long-term capital objectives.
Why I Want to Serve on the Community Council (max ~100 words): Daniel’s formal service on the Council would bring structured governance oversight aligned with his expertise in software engineering, DevOps, data science, and protocol architecture. As Radiant evolves toward enterprise-grade capital infrastructure, technical guidance at the Council level is critical. His involvement would enhance strategic decision-making around market risk, protocol design, and asset integration.
How I Will Contribute During Radiant’s Recovery & Growth Phase (max ~100 words): Daniel will continue advancing modular capital infrastructure. His work will include refining DevOps and SecOps processes, optimizing the existing lending architecture, parameterizing markets, managing risk, conducting asset research, and developing future DeFi primitives. He will remain focused on building and shipping infrastructure, improving protocol economics, and aligning incentives among depositors, tokenholders, and long-term stakeholders.
Time Commitment Acknowledged (Yes / No): Please confirm by responding to this nomination @Novin.
Conflicts of Interest (Required Disclosure): Core contributor and development service provider to Radiant DAO. No undisclosed conflicts of interest. Had no involvement with the team pre-exploit.