Daniel Kelleher is a seasoned technology leader and CTO based in Berlin with 12+ years building full-stack web and blockchain systems, holding a PhD in Computer Science. He blends hands-on Java and JavaScript development with enterprise architecture and agile leadership, having run distributed engineering teams and established CI/CD, automated testing and security practices at Civic. Daniel has deep blockchain experience—contributing to Solana and integrating Civic Pass UX—and has founded a Solana staking initiative that channels yield into climate projects. Comfortable as an architect, principal engineer or Scrum Master, he repeatedly bridges protocol design and product delivery, from DID methods to token-swap integrations. His background in finance, energy and identity platforms gives him a knack for turning complex, regulated requirements into pragmatic, auditable systems.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Trinity College Dublin
Contributions:19 reviews, 15 commits, 51 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily focused on integrating the Civic Pass UI within the governance-ui repository. They developed and integrated a gateway plugin for Civic Pass, including the creation of registrar components. The contributions involved refactoring and optimizing existing gateway plugin logic, addressing styling issues, and improving the user interface related to Civic Pass functionality. Additional work included fixes related to the Civic Pass integration and profile links.
A collection of Solana programs maintained by Solana Labs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:1 review, 8 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the Solana program library by implementing and improving the token program's functionality. They added support for wrapped native SOL tokens and modified token declarations. Moreover, the user integrated token-swap functionality with corresponding TypeScript and Flow bindings while building pure JS versions. These contributions included layout exposures and the standardisation of amount parameters.
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