I'm Daniel Smith. I build resilient infrastructure for fintech and Web3.

Senior Backend Platform Engineer with 7+ years building resilient, large-scale infrastructure for fintech and Web3 platforms. Based in San Gabriel, CA.

Most recently at Phantom I architected multi-region Kubernetes + CockroachDB failover systems, reduced infrastructure costs 65%, and shipped two production AI tools: an automated Slack → Linear ticket bot powered by LLMs and an official company-wide knowledge bot (hackathon → maintained product) that ingests Notion, Linear, GitHub, and Slack for natural-language queries.

I care deeply about agentic AI and developer experience. I recently open-sourced ClawQL, an MCP server for multi-protocol API access (OpenAPI, Swagger, Google Discovery, optional GraphQL/gRPC) with lean token use on remote calls, Obsidian vault memory, audit and session cache, and optional tools for sandbox runs, persisted schedules, Slack notifications, and more — see docs.clawql.com. I also contributed agentic web-search + MCP skills to Google's AI Edge Gallery and experiment with on-device ML and GenAI UX via my fork of the gallery sample.

Previously:

• Led blockchain infrastructure and multi-chain indexing at DraftKings Marketplace
• Designed Progressive Deployments, Canary Testing, and Zero Trust security at Upgrade Inc.
• Built the core state machine for the Bahamian Sand Dollar CBDC at IBM Blockchain

Open to conversations on platform engineering, AI agents, Kubernetes, and scalable AI infrastructure. Currently seeking new opportunities — happy to connect!