Polkadot Head Ambassador Application

Hello, We are core team members at OpenGuild are happy to apply for the Head Ambassador role in the new Ambassador Program in charge of the Southeast Asia market fostering the focus of building relationships with Web3.0 builders, organizations, and influencers in the SEA market to elevate the Polkadot ecosystem and Polkadot techstack.

CONTEXT - WHAT IS OPENGUILD?

OpenGuild - An open community driven by Web 3.0 builders elevating Polkadot in Southeast Asia. We find & connect talents in the region and help them become a part of Polkadot to create new value.

OpenGuild Community is run by the OG Core Team, a team of dedicated long-term contributors focusing on exploring market entries and enhancing organization collaboration for Polkadot in Southeast Asia (**Cris Nguyen, Tin Chung, Patricia Arro**).

CORE TEAM MEMBERS

We have 3 core team members with 4 more executive members in charge of BD, Marketing, Events, and Developer Relations living in SEA countries.

Cris Nguyen

Cris has worked in the Polkadot ecosystem for 3 years, where he led the Polkadot Insider team to become the biggest research and educational media platform in the Polkadot community (handed over to the co-founder in January 2024). His focus had been on business development and partnerships, working with multiple para chains and applications by addressing their marketing and community needs and helping them with community campaigns and promotions. Cris is also a prolific connector of the Polkadot ecosystem in Southeast Asia with a focus on partners including VCs, media organizations and communities, and Web3 projects. Cris has successfully organized multiple events on behalf of Polkadot in Southeast Asia with 100+ attendees. He has also been a speaker at various events, bringing Polkadot closer to local crypto communities and becoming the most active ambassador in the region. Cris had a chance to work at Moonbeam Network as a Business Development professional based in Vietnam, focused on building partnerships with builders and facilitating growth for the broader Polkadot ecosystem for 6 months.

At the current stage, Cris’s focus is Strategy Lead and Operation Manager at OpenGuild to deliver regular workshops, events, hackathons, and technical community calls, becoming the important representative of the Polkadot network in Southeast Asia market and nearly becoming a middle point of contact for Polkadot/Parachain team to any potential vendors in the market.

Tin Chung

Tin has participated in a few blockchain hackathons, such as the Chainlink Spring Hackathon 2021, where my team was awarded as the Top Project Winner, and the International Blockchain Olympiad with the Category Award Winner.

Regarding Tin’s professional experience, he has experience working as a software engineer in multiple L1 blockchains, from Ethereum and Solana to Lightning Network L2 solutions on the Bitcoin blockchain, Tin is a former Coin98 Wallet engineer - one of the biggest wallet in SEA market with 10M+ users and ex-lead engineer at Snowflake - a multi-sig wallet with total 50M+ TVL at peak on Solana.

In his past startup working as a software engineer, he developed and maintained open-source SDKs and client libraries in Rust and TypeScript that help developers work with underlying protocols. On the other hand, Tin has spent a lot of time building and contributing to open-source software, especially the Polkadot SDK and Substrate framework for blockchain builders.

At the current stage, he is a PBA graduate at Singapore Cohort (Wave 5) and Dev Rel Lead at OpenGuild / Polkadot SEA with a focus on preparing technical workshop content, hosting a monthly Hackathon at OpenGuild, in charge of all the technical development. Tin was also a Rust Mentor at Vietnam Biggest Hackathon organized by ZKP Labs and GM Vietnam on behalf of Polkadot.

Patricia Arro

Patricia has been in the blockchain space doing community marketing management for over 6 years and has worked for blockchain startups in different industries like agritech, fintech, defi, and top exchanges like Bybit and Crypto.com. Her experience started working for a crypto agency where Patricia was the blockchain educator and trainer of community moderators. This led to acquiring more experience in strategic community management that allowed her to work with Product Managers, Engineers, Dev Rels, Marketing, and Sales.

Fast forward to early 2023. Patricia worked at Parity as Polkadot’s APAC Community Manager, managing and growing APAC Ambassadors, activating local communities, and curating events/meetups. During this time, she fostered relationships with local web3 leaders, which now helps boost her current initiatives.

Currently, Patricia is part of OpenGuild which is mainly focused on growing, educating, and activating Polkadot’s developer communities in Southeast Asia. With this, she’s also representing Polkadot in the region by being invited to speak to multiple blockchain and crypto events like AIBC, Southeast Asia Blockchain Week, Thailand Blockchain Week, Sub0 Asia (as host), and multiple local/Philippine initiatives.

WHY DO WE PROPOSE THE HEAD AMBASSADOR ROLE AND HOW WE WILL BE ONE OF THE TOP OPTIONS?

The OG Core Team believes that we are one of the most suitable candidates for the Head Ambassador role in Southeast Asia through our ready-made resources, connections, partners, and diversified skills within our team. The OG Core Team already has a large number of partners from the Polkadot ecosystem and local partners, with each member having dedicated over 3 years of full-time commitment to contributing to the ecosystem through various initiatives, building relationships, creating mutual values, and partners are always ready to activate most activities related to Polkadot. The team gathers all the necessary skills to perform well in the focused region, including leadership, operation management, strategy, partnership development, marketing and event management, content creation, community management, public speaking, technical knowledge, developer relations, programming, and most importantly, ecosystem skin-in-the-game.

We have performed the tasks we propose for HA very well in the region as a spirit of Polkadot SEA, but with the Head Ambassador role officially and appropriate resources allocated by collaborating with All Ambassadors in the program, we are confident that we can elevate our work to the next level as our official job build up a strong Polkadot presence and create outcome in SEA.

ACCESS OUR FULL PROPOSAL TO SEE THE AMBASSADOR STRATEGY, EXECUTION PLAN, AND HOW WE UTILIZE RESOURCES AND HELP POLKADOT ECOSYSTEM PENETRATE THE MARKET.

Note: Proposed deliverables on behalf of Ambassadors are not in ref#409, but we are convinced OpenGuild core team members have been the important point of contact for anyone to Polkadot in the local market in different areas and still doing it as a spirit of Polkadot SEA contributors. We will utilize OpenGuild’s resources and Ambassador Program’s human resources to help us operate appropriately.

OpenGuild is a community of Web 3.0 builders who are working to elevate Polkadot in Southeast Asia.

The OpenGuild Core Team consists of three members who have experience in business development, software engineering, and community marketing management.

The team has connections with partners from the Polkadot ecosystem and local partners, and they have dedicated over 3 years of full-time commitment to contributing to the ecosystem.

The team has the necessary skills to perform well in the focused region, including leadership, operation management, strategy, partnership development, marketing and event management, content creation, community management, public speaking, technical knowledge, developer relations, programming, and most importantly, ecosystem skin-in-the-game.