Dan Gisolfi
Sr. Distinguished Engineer, Head Of Discover's Research And Development at iDen2
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolDan Gisolfi is a seasoned technology innovator and R&D leader with over 15 years of experience shepherding ideas from incubation to market impact, currently heading Discover’s Research & Development within Capital One’s Discover division. He blends deep technical expertise in decentralized identity, open security, and big data with strong business development and patent-mentoring skills, having led major open-source and industry initiatives at IBM and Discover. Known as a pragmatic player-coach, he runs innovate-incubate-iterate cycles, applying design thinking and governance to manage risk while accelerating productization and open collaboration. He has a track record of convening cross-industry consortia (e.g., Bedrock/ToIP work) and translating standards and research into commercial offerings and cloud services. Based in the New York City area, he also channels his creativity into award-winning artisan winemaking, a detail that underscores his blend of technical rigor and hands-on craftsmanship.
15 years of coding experience
35 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Computer Science at Manhattanville UniversityMaster of Science (MS) Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science (MS) Artificial Intelligence at New York University - Polytechnic School of Engineering
English, Italian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (131)
peer-to-peer10
aries10
verifiable-credentials10
decentralized-identity10
hyperledger-aries10
hyperledger-fabric10
blockchain10
hyperledger10
blockchain-network10
infrastructure9
consensus9
accessibility9
foundry9
grav8
grav-plugin8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
trustoverip/technology-stack-wg
Jun 2020 - Oct 2020
The ToIP Technical Stack Working Group.
Contributions:18 commits, 12 PRs, 8 pushes in 5 months
working-grouptoip
bedrock-consortium/bbu-gf
Apr 2020 - Mar 2021
Bedrock Business Utility Governance Framework
Contributions:20 PRs, 128 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
bedrockgovernance
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