Daniel Olshansky
Member Of Forward Deployed Staff at OpenAI
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Olshansky is a backend engineer and startup CTO with 13 years of experience building infrastructure and tooling that make data scientists and creators more effective. He has led and scaled protocol and cloud systems—helping Pocket Network serve over 1B daily requests and launching a stablecoin-backed micropayment stack for creators at Grove—bridging crypto, payments, and developer tooling. Comfortable founding and scaling companies, he’s shipped production services at Waymo, Magic Leap, Twitter and built geotechnical and AR products earlier in his career. Daniel combines hands-on systems design with product instincts, and brings a practical aversion to complexity: any domain can be mastered with enough focused curiosity.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Ontario Secondary School Diploma, Ontario Secondary School Diploma at William Lyon Mackenzie Collegiate InstituteBachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Electrical and Computer Engineering (Engineering Science), Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Electrical and Computer Engineering (Engineering Science) at University of Toronto
English, Russian, Hebrew
Stackoverflow
6,084reputation
3.6mreached
29answers
41questions
python
top-5%
Github Skills (200)
cryptocurrency10
svg10
command-line-tool10
computer-science10
swiftui10
neural-network10
llama10
git-workflow10
gitignore10
medium10
css10
regex10
llm10
ignite10
deep-neural-networks10
Programming languages (30)
Github contributions (5)
Olshansk/postgres_for_everything
May 2024 - Apr 2026
How to reduce complexity and move faster? Just Postgres for everything.
Contributions:7 reviews, 18 PRs, 50 pushes in 1 year 11 months
postgresql
pokt-network/ring-go
May 2024 - Sep 2025
💍implementation of linkable ring signatures in go
Contributions:1 release, 3 reviews, 1 PR in 1 year 4 months
go
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