This referendum is to add and promote Piero to I Dan. Here's his application below:

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!