A familiar face, in a new role. We’re pleased to welcome Nick Clarke as Intersect’s Director of Cardano Technology. A mathematician turned functional programmer turned Jack-of-all-trades, Nick has been involved in Cardano since 2018 and the Byron rewrite. Along the way, he helped establish the ledger team, contributed significantly to the ledger core and Praos protocol, worked on Cardano node release management, and most recently served as Director of Engineering at Tweag. Nick has also been contributing to Intersect since its formation, including as Chair of the Open Source Committee, a member of the Technical Steering Committee, and through helping establish and subsequently serve on the Security Council. In his new role, @nc_cardano will lead Intersect’s technical coordination team across the range of support, stewardship and services we provide to Cardano and its technical ecosystem. Over the next six months, that will include taking a lead role in coordinating the Dijkstra upgrade, alongside continuing to strengthen our security and incident response capability. There’s a lot of important work ahead, and we’re pleased to have Nick leading it - welcome!