Add kclowes from Testing

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Add kclowes from STEEL

Name

kclowes (@kclowes)

Team

STEEL (EF)

Short summary of their work / eligibility

• Full-time contributor to ethereum/execution-specs and ethereum/execution-spec-tests, focusing on test infrastructure and EIP-7951 (P256VERIFY) testing. execution-specs PRs | execution-spec-tests PRs
• Contributed to ethereum/hive RPC compatibility testing. hive PRs
• Previously implemented EIPs in ethereum/py-evm including EIP-7702, EIP-3529, EIP-2565, demonstrating deep protocol knowledge. PRs
• Authored EIP complexity assessments for ethsteel/pm (EIP-7668, EIP-8024).

Link to some work

ethereum/execution-specs & ethereum/execution-spec-tests

EIP-7951 P256VERIFY

• #1410 - Move point at infinity check before curve check for p256 verify (Security fix for EIP-7951)
• #2068 - feat(tests): Add contract creation tests for 7951
• #2023 - feat(tests): Add more cases for EIP-7951
• #2015 - feat(tests): Test 256verify modular comparison
• #2088 - chore(tests): Update 7951 Checklist Markers

Infrastructure

• #2301 - fix(rpc): Always set data on JSONRPCError, account for None

ethereum/hive

• #1345 - simulators/ethereum/rpc-compat: special handling for speconly tests

ethsteel/pm

EIP Complexity Assessments

• #13 - Complexity Assessment EIP-7668
• #10 - Initial EIP-8024 complexity assessment

ethereum/py-evm

Prior maintainer.

EIP Implementations

• #2206 - Finalize EIP-7702 implementation — Prague (Set EOA Account Code)
• #2200 - Begin 7702
• #2020 - EIP-3529 Reduction in Refunds
• #1976 - EIP-2565 ModExp Gas Cost
• #2015 - London basefee opcode 0x48

Start date of relevant projects

• First py-evm PRs: March 2021.
• Full-time execution-specs/execution-spec-tests contributor since June 2025.

Proposed weight (full or partial)

Full

Conflicts of Interest

None