Dan Gould
Founder & CEO at dangould.dev
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolDan Gould is a founder and CEO with a decade of hands-on software engineering experience building privacy-focused Bitcoin products and developer tooling. Based in Boston, he founded Chaincase to make advanced privacy tech like Tor and CoinJoin accessible to non-technical iOS users while avoiding activity leakage to third parties. He pairs startup grit with security rigor—having researched and remediated dozens of CVEs at Stratis and audited network privacy for hardware wallet vendors. Comfortable across full stacks and languages, he contributes to open-source Bitcoin tooling in Rust, optimizing PSBT workflows and witness serialization to improve performance and reliability. A creative problem-solver who thrives in distributed teams, he blends product instincts with backend engineering and test automation. He holds both BA and MS degrees in computer science from Boston University.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science at Boston University
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Github Skills (10)
serialization10
deserialization10
bitcoin10
data-serialization10
rust10
bitcoins10
testing10
cryptography9
serde9
error-handling9
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
rust-bitcoin/rust-bitcoin
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Rust Bitcoin library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:54 reviews, 12 commits, 10 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Dan primarily focused on improving the Bitcoin library's efficiency and functionality. They optimized the serialization of witness data, enhancing performance by removing unnecessary memory allocations. Furthermore, the user integrated and tested test vectors from BIP 174 for PSBT (Partially Signed Bitcoin Transactions) workflows, which improved the project's testing and reliability. Several commits involved modifications related to PSBT serialization and deserialization, and error handling for the library.
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DanGould/WalletWasabi
Apr 2020 - Oct 2021
Open-source, non-custodial, privacy focused Bitcoin wallet for Windows, Linux, and Mac. Built-in Tor, CoinJoin, and coin control features.
Contributions:13 reviews, 3 PRs, 41 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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