Daniel Veenstra
Software Engineer at Augment
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Veenstra is a self-taught senior software engineer with 11 years building distributed systems, web backends, data platforms, and embedded device software from Austin, Texas. He led development of the Phonon Protocol and the General Compute Environment for GridPlus’s Lattice1, combining secure hardware, custom Linux, and Golang services to solve real-world crypto scalability and privacy problems. Prior roles include architecting GM’s vehicle data platform and operating large Hadoop and Kafka ecosystems, where he drove high-throughput ingestion and performance-optimized ETL. Daniel blends hands-on engineering and team leadership—hiring and managing cross-functional teams while owning protocol and cloud infrastructure design. He favors breadth-first exploration across crypto, IoT, DevOps, and everything-as-code, and often ships production-ready tooling from bootloader-level firmware to cloud services. A practical systems thinker, he pairs low-level embedded insight with big-data and cloud experience to deliver secure, scalable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Entrepreneurship and Technology Management, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Entrepreneurship and Technology Management at Indiana University - Kelley School of BusinessStudy Abroad, Study Abroad at Cass Business SchoolStudy Abroad Spanish, Study Abroad Spanish at FC Barcelona American Students Abroad Program
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Github Skills (77)
phonon10
private-key9
specification9
cryptocurrency9
hardware9
ethereum9
applet9
passkit9
mining8
javacard8
recovery8
scraper8
seed8
crawler7
hid7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
GridPlus/phonon-client
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
GridPlus client for interfacing with Phonon compatible hardware
Contributions:1 release, 208 reviews, 300 commits in 2 years 2 months
ethereumphononcryptocurrencyhardwarego
maevyn11/dsforthepeople
Mar 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:75 commits, 53 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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