Phil Ngo is the Technical Project Manager of ChainSafe’s Ethereum consensus client, Lodestar, written in TypeScript. He joined ChainSafe in July 2021, contributing to web3JS and Lodestar as a way to contribute back to the ETH ecosystem after deploying a genesis validator on the beacon chain . His web3 journey began in 2013 after he was sent Bitcoin & mined as a demo. Throughout the years, he realized the immense value of permissionless, transparent & decentralized ledgers to human coordination.