# DevNTell - TalentLayer

In this week's episode of DevNTell we were joined by Co-Founders [Kirsten](https://twitter.com/kirstenrpomales) and [Romain](https://twitter.com/Romain__TL) who gave us an overview of TalentLayer.

# 🌟 Developer Spotlight

[Kirsten](https://twitter.com/kirstenrpomales) is a co-founder and Executive Lead of TalentLayer. She's a college dropout, self-taught dev, and freelancer who's now leading the open-source movement behind TalentLayer. She spent the past 4 years consulting on various enterprise blockchain projects and an NFT marketplace SDK startup.

[Romain](https://twitter.com/Romain__TL) is the co-founder and the Technical Lead of TalentLayer. He led the team behind Europe's biggest sports data infra company for 6 years. He has spent the past 4 years experimenting and building teams and blockchain projects.

# 🔥 About **TalentLayer**

From the [TalentLayer Docs](https://docs.talentlayer.org/):

TalentLayer is infrastructure for open service markets; backend tooling for building interoperable marketplaces that leverage an on-chain liquidity pool of users and services.

TalentLayer provides core tooling for building marketplaces including:

* On-chain jobs and proposals
    
* Soul-bound identity and reviews
    
* Configurable escrow capable of supporting milestone, lump sum, hourly pay and more
    
* Decentralized and platform-managed dispute resolution options
    
* Configurable fees system enabling fees on escrow transactions, job posts, proposal submissions, dispute resolution
    

**Resources**

* Website: [https://www.talentlayer.org/](https://www.talentlayer.org/)
    
* Twitter: [https://twitter.com/talentlayer](https://twitter.com/talentlayer)
    
* GitHub: [https://github.com/TalentLayer](https://github.com/TalentLayer)
    
* LinkTree: [https://linktr.ee/talentlayer](https://linktr.ee/talentlayer)
    
* Kirsten's Twitter: [https://twitter.com/kirstenrpomales](https://twitter.com/kirstenrpomales)
    
* Romain's Twitter: [https://twitter.com/Romain\_\_TL](https://twitter.com/Romain__TL)
    
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# **🎥 Presentation**

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