Daniel Thurau
Founding Software Engineer at Heliux
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Thurau is a founding software engineer in San Francisco with a decade of experience building distributed systems, backend services, and governance tooling for blockchain and consumer platforms. He helped launch DFINITY’s Service Nervous System—enabling one-click decentralization for Internet Computer dapps—and contributed core protocol features to the widely known Internet Computer replica and Network Nervous System. Prior roles at Amazon and UC Santa Cruz sharpened his skills in large-scale fulfillment systems, ML pipelines, and experimental market platforms, while his advisor and startup work show a knack for business ops and productization. Comfortable across infrastructure, security, and applied research, he blends hands-on engineering with an interest in history, politics, and media that informs pragmatic, user-focused design.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (8)
governance10
ca10
develop10
rust10
blockchain10
protobuffer9
protobuf9
json8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dfinity/ic
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
Internet Computer blockchain source: the client/replica software run by nodes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Blockchain Engineer
Back-end Developer & Blockchain EngineerContributions:162 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Daniel's commits focus on enhancing the functionality of the Internet Computer (IC) blockchain, specifically for the Internet Computer blockchain source: the client/replica software run by nodes. They primarily added features related to handling proposals, including a dry-run flag for simulating and inspecting proposal payloads within the Network Nervous System (NNS). The changes involved modifications to various core components, such as the root handler, registry admin, and test infrastructure, emphasizing the user's contributions to core blockchain functionality and the implementation of essential governance mechanisms, including updates to the key management and access control list.
blockchain
MSadekUni/python-portscan
Sep 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:1 release, 93 commits, 1 PR in 29 days
nmappythonconcurrencysecuritypython-module
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