Daniel Buchner
Director - Digital Assets at Proof
United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Buchner is an engineering-minded product leader with two decades of experience building digital identity, browser, consumer app, and fintech/Bitcoin products across organizations like Block, Microsoft, and Mozilla. He has repeatedly translated cryptographic research and decentralized protocols into production systems—architecting the first scalable DID Layer-2 on Bitcoin and driving W3C, DIF, OIDF, and IETF standards. Daniel blends hands-on front-end and full-stack chops (notably contributions to the ION DID explorer, Vorlon.js, X-Tag and MooTools) with strategic product leadership, growing developer ecosystems and cross-company integrations. His work emphasizes practical interoperability: implementing Verifiable Credentials, DIDs, passkeys, and novel m-of-n recovery models for real-world wallets and compliant cross-border fintech flows. Comfortable at the intersection of research, standards, and shipping products, he’s as likely to edit CSS and web components as to lead international standards efforts. Based in the United States, he pairs entrepreneurial curiosity from early startup founding with enterprise-scale delivery.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Business, BS, Business at California State University, Chico
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Github Skills (36)
unit-testing10
javascript10
event-handling10
css10
web-components10
ui-design10
mootools10
uid10
dom-manipulation10
front-end-development10
dom10
html10
zurb-foundation10
debug9
user-interface9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
x-tag/core
Jan 2013 - Mar 2019
The Heart of X-Tag
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 264 commits, 11 PRs in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Daniel implemented core functionality and features for the X-Tag project. Their work focused on developing and integrating mixins to provide enhanced functionality and also include the management of the template rendering functions. In addition, they focused on adding core support and updating the documentation of the project. Their contributions included updating existing documentation and adding unit tests for increased robustness and maintainability.
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decentralized-identity/ion
Jan 2019 - Sep 2021
The Identity Overlay Network (ION) is a DID Method implementation using the Sidetree protocol atop Bitcoin
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 74 commits, 58 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the user interface of the ION explorer. Their work includes significant changes to the web explorer's HTML and CSS, and the integration of web components. They added a did resolution search panel, improved the display of linked domains, and added functionality to copy DID Documents to the clipboard.
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