I’m excited to announce that Nick Hong has joined the Origin engineering team. Nick brings 10 years of experience as an engineer and engineering manager at renowned Web2 companies: Medium, Eaze, Instacart, and TheRealReal.
More recently, Nick fell in love with Web3 because of how quickly it innovates and because of how all the players in Web3 seek to align with their communities. Nick has been involved in the 1/1 photography NFT space, making smart contracts and mint sites with a few notable artists like Driftershoots, Brendan North, and Dana Taylor.
Nick became interested in Origin after he heard about our NFT drops with 3Lau and other celebrities. In his own words “What really hooked my interest is Origin’s commitment to becoming a Web3 community and workplace. Origin has strong community ties through weekly calls and Discord, and Origin uses OGN and OGV instead of traditional startup equity to align the team’s motivation with the broader community incentives as well.”
When we met with Nick we were impressed with his broad engineering experience, his passion for Web3, attention to details and ability to build gorgeous UIs. We felt it was a natural fit for him to join the Origin Story engineering team. We can’t wait to see the amazing products Nick will build while being part of the Origin team.
Outside of work, Nick practices martial arts competitively (Muay Thai kickboxing) and loves portrait photography. Fun fact — his Discord handle @pepperonick came from eating way too much ghost pepper hot sauce with one of his ex co-worker at Eaze!
Please join me in welcoming Nick to the Origin engineering team!
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