My name is Piero and I am requesting to join the Polkadot Fellowship.

Github: https://github.com/pifragile

### Quick bio:
- Msc. in Computer Science from ETH Zürich
- Substrate/Polkadot for two years since I joined Encointer in 2021
- Experience with various Web2 backend projects and Web3 Dapps on Tezos

### Contributions:

#### Encointer core protocol:
- Design and implement faucet
- https://github.com/encointer/book/pull/14
- https://github.com/encointer/encointer-node/pull/333
- https://github.com/encointer/pallets/pull/319
- https://github.com/encointer/pallets/pull/326
- https://github.com/encointer/encointer-parachain/pull/193
- Design and implement democracy module
- https://book.encointer.org/protocol-democracy.html
- https://github.com/encointer/pallets/pull/273
- Redesign participant attestations
- https://github.com/encointer/pallets/pull/231
- https://github.com/encointer/pallets/issues/215
- Endorsement after registration
- https://github.com/encointer/pallets/pull/202
- Early reward payout
- https://github.com/encointer/pallets/pull/233
- Allow for upgrading registrations and unregistering
- https://github.com/encointer/pallets/pull/254
- Allow reputables to endorse
- https://github.com/encointer/pallets/pull/268
- Geohash location validation algorithm
- https://github.com/encointer/pallets/pull/55
- Constant time random permutation for meetup assignment
- https://github.com/encointer/pallets/pull/68

#### Misc:
- Implement custom RPCs
- https://github.com/encointer/pallets/pull/196
- Implement storage migrations for Weight V2
- https://github.com/encointer/pallets/pull/308
- Various polkadot/substrate dependency bumps
- https://github.com/encointer/pallets/pull/299
- https://github.com/encointer/encointer-parachain/pull/171
- Fee payment in Encointer community currency
- https://github.com/encointer/encointer-node/pull/194/files
- https://github.com/encointer/encointer-node/pull/226
- https://github.com/encointer/pallets/pull/190
- Integrate try runtime
- https://github.com/encointer/encointer-parachain/pull/177/files
- https://github.com/encointer/encointer-node/pull/312/files

#### Non rust contributions:
- Build an indexer using qubquery
- https://github.com/encointer/subquery (Main author)
- Build an accounting tool for encointer businesses
- https://github.com/encointer/accounting-frontend (Main author)
- https://github.com/SolidbitGmbH/encointer-accounting-backend (Main author)
- Build an integration for Encointer personhood in KILT
- https://github.com/encointer/kilt-personhood (Main author)
- Contributions to encointer js
- https://github.com/encointer/encointer-js/pull/78

#### PRs into Polkadot Repos:
- https://github.com/polkadot-fellows/runtimes/pull/17
- https://github.com/paritytech/substrate/pull/12153

Thank you for your consideration!