Daniel Hardman
VLEI Technical Advisory Board at Provenant Inc
Orem, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Hardman is a seasoned technologist and security-focused architect with 12+ years building privacy-preserving, decentralized systems and leading engineering teams from startup to standards bodies. Currently serving on the vLEI Technical Advisory Board and as CTO/CISO at Provenant, he blends hands-on cryptographic protocol design, zero-trust architecture, and pragmatic product delivery. A long-time Hyperledger and Sovrin contributor, his open-source work includes security hardening and documentation improvements for flagship projects like indy-sdk, indy-plenum, and Aries RFCs—helping make complex distributed identity protocols more reliable and usable. He’s equally at home mentoring teams, writing standards, and shipping cross-platform implementations in languages from Rust and C++ to Python and Java. Known for synthesizing ambiguity into concrete, mission-critical “crown jewel” solutions, he pairs rigorous security instincts with a teacher’s knack for making esoteric ideas accessible.
13 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Coursera Specialization (2015), Cybersecurity, Coursera Specialization (2015), Cybersecurity at University of MarylandMBA, entrepreneurship, international business, marketing, MBA, entrepreneurship, international business, marketing at Brigham Young University
Spanish, French
Github Skills (16)
indy10
security-hardening10
sdk10
python10
documentation10
testing9
markdown-it9
markdown9
rust8
git8
aries7
api-design7
ssi7
api7
blockchain6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
decentralized-identity/aries-rfcs
May 2019 - Jul 2021
Hyperledger Aries is infrastructure for blockchain-rooted, peer-to-peer interactions
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:66 reviews, 638 commits, 330 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Daniel Hardman's commits primarily focused on enhancing the security and functionality of the Hyperledger Aries RFCs repository. His work involved implementing improvements and security hardening, as well as bug fixes related to broken links and other protocol issues. He also contributed to improving the code generation for the index.md file. The contributions indicate expertise in fixing potential issues and improving the reliability of the codebase.
blockchainhyperledger-ariespeer-to-peeraries
hyperledger-indy/indy-sdk
Mar 2017 - Jul 2021
indy-sdk
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 102 commits, 63 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Daniel made comments and documentation updates in `src/api/ledger.rs` to improve code clarity. They also made changes to tutorial files involving Python code in the doc folder, to create secure message walkthroughs. The user's primary focus appears to be on enhancing documentation and providing examples, while also making small code adjustments.
ssizkpindy-sdksdkindy
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