DanielΒ Schaefer
Senior Software Engineer at Agora Data, Inc.
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Schaefer is a Senior Software Engineer with seven years of professional experience and a five-year track record building production systems in .NET and Python across DeFi, fintech, and business operations. He co-founded Cosmic Assets, where he develops Cardano tooling, runs stake pools, and has built trading and blockchain integration libraries using C#, Python, EF Core, Dapper, and AWS. Currently at Agora Data and pursuing an MS in Computer Science at Georgia Tech, he blends handsβon engineering with quantitative finance experience from risk-modeling and algorithmic trading projects. Comfortable across backend services, data stores, and lightweight front-ends, heβs driven measurable operational improvements (e.g., inventory error reduction) and focuses on pragmatic abstractions that help other developers ship dApps faster. Notably, he combines production blockchain ops with traditional finance systemsβa rare cross-section that accelerates DeFi product development.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Nevada-Las VegasMinor Finance General, Minor Finance General at UNLV Lee Business School
English
Github Skills (32)
wallet10
cryptocurrency10
cardano10
blockchain10
ed2551910
dotnet9
serialization9
data-access-layer8
test-data8
seed8
fakerjs7
fake-data-generator7
dotnet-library7
poco7
rest-api6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Daniel-SchaeferJ/CosmicAssetCardanoPoolWebSite
Nov 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:13 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 4 months
Daniel-SchaeferJ/Fluree.NET
Oct 2021 - Aug 2025
A dotnet library to interact with a fluree node.
Contributions:3 reviews, 38 PRs, 125 pushes in 3 years 9 months
dotnet-library
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