Dane Schneider
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDane Schneider is a founder and full-stack engineer with 15 years of experience building secure, scalable systems and developer tools from idea to production. He founded EnvKey (YC W18), running an end-to-end encrypted secrets service that sustained 100% uptime for critical requests for years, and more recently launched Plandex, an open-source AI coding agent that quickly earned widespread attention with 14k+ stars. Dane blends product design, applied cryptography, and infra expertise—shipping services across Go, TypeScript, Postgres, and AWS while owning everything from UX to failover architecture. Currently focused on making AI agents powerful and safe at OpenAI, he also contributes core backend logic to agentic tooling like Plandex and works on red-teaming and security for enterprise agents. A former poker pro turned engineer, he brings a pragmatic, risk-aware mindset to distributed systems and AI safety.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Philosophy, Philosophy at St. Lawrence University
Spanish, English
Stackoverflow
884reputation
234kreached
9answers
21questions
Github Skills (13)
go10
api10
backend10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
streaming9
software-design8
flash6
typescript6
rsl6
apache-flex6
ruby6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
plandex-ai/plandex
Mar 2024 - Apr 2025
Open source AI coding agent. Designed for large projects and real world tasks.
Role in this project:
Backend Engineer
Backend EngineerContributions:45 releases, 6 reviews, 40 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Dane converted the server to a multi-step proposal model with streaming responses. They implemented the core functionality for creating, confirming, and aborting proposals, and were actively involved in creating and modifying Go files related to the server's internal proposal model. The user contributed to the core logic by modifying a significant portion of the `server/model/proposal/confirm.go` file.
aiai-agentsai-developer-toolsai-toolscli
envkey/envkey-fetch
Aug 2017 - Mar 2022
Core EnvKey fetch/decryption/verification logic. Give it an ENVKEY, get back decrypted config as json. Compiles static cross platform binaries that can be easily built upon.
Contributions:23 releases, 157 commits, 2 PRs in 4 years 7 months
binariesconfigcross-platformverificationfetch
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