The ARK Crew is happy to announce the first major addition to our core development team: Lúcio Rubens.

Lúcio is a full stack developer from Brazil and we could not be more excited to welcome him to the ARK Crew.

Lúcio got his start as a contributor to the ARK Ecosystem GitHub and participated in the GitHub bounty program. He quickly caught our eye due to the quality of his submissions and his willingness to help root out and fix several bugs. He also provided cool new desktop wallet features like the QR scanner, remaining balance, and custom backgrounds, and has shown a great deal of passion for ARK.

We know talent when we see it and wasted no time extending an offer to have him join the team in an official capacity. Lúcio accepted and will officially be joining the ARK team as a full stack developer starting June 1st, 2017.

However, he will no longer be eligible for any of the GitHub bounties starting in June which in turn means more for our community developers. Who knows, maybe you’ll be the next full-time ARK developer!

Lúcio has an impressive resume and is capable in JavaScript, Java, Python, PHP, C#, and is working on learning Go. He also has extensive experience with front-end development to include HTML, CSS3, Less, Sass, Stylus, JQuery, VueJS, and Angular as well as a background in databases like MSSQL, MySQL, and Mongo. His experience and positive attitude will be invaluable to ARK and we can’t wait to see what he does next.

We welcome Lúcio and his great ideas and passion to the ARK team as we move forward in creating the ARK Ecosystem. Please feel free to congratulate him the next time you see him on Slack and keep submitting your ideas, issues, and bugs so we can keep him busy!