# Dan Buchholz

> Building AI infra to measure & improve agent execution via live markets

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/danbuchholz

always learning. systems & programming minded. just trying to build.

twitter/x & github: @dtbuchholz

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Recall Labs
Jan 2025 – Present
Building AI agent infrastructure:
- Agent “arenas” for live, market-driven evals
- Repayable states & traces to enable improve agent context engineering
- Full stack APIs & UIs for user / agent management & discoverability

### Developer Relations @ Recall Labs
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024
Ecosystem growth & software development to promote:
- Decentralized SQL database (EVM-driven ACLs & offchain indexing / queries)
- Decentralized object storage (S3 compatible), built as a hierarchical subnet L2 chain with erasure coded blobs

### Fellowship, Core Developer @ Ethereum Foundation
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Ethereum
- Blockchain research & development, focusing on the Ethereum consensus layer as part of the Merge
- Contributed to an implementation of the Ethereum consensus specification in Rust (primarily by adding the epoch processing component)

### Solutions Engineer (Pre-Sales) @ FourKites, Inc.
Jan 2016 – Jan 2021 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
FourKites is a supply chain visibility startup that provides real-time shipment tracking and predictive, Machine Learning insights. By acting as the fabric between hundreds of disparate entities and systems, companies helps increase operational efficiencies and reduce costs.

Role focus: to execute successful proof-of-concepts while operating in ad-hoc roles across nearly all functions, including Integration Engineer (API or XML integration design/build/test/deploy), Implementation Manager (project management & scoping), and post-implementation Support and Product (managing enhancement requests & client communication with issues/timelines).

Additional experience:
- Original <25 employees, as the company has scaled to 500+ (through Series A, B, C) + acquisition
- Pitched software capabilities to technical and non-technical Executive stakeholders at Fortune 500 companies, often developing value-based ROI through digital strategy workshops
- Technical lead during the pre-sales process (discovery, scope, architect) and worked cross-functionally with Product and Operations to ensure Proof-of-Concept (POC) & post-sales success
- Managed the integration build/test/deploys (APIs or XML/flat files over FTP/SFTP) and wrote scripts (Ruby, Python) to enable successful POCs with client’s systems (e.g., OTM, SAP, etc.)
- Served roles across most functions in ad-hoc capacities – Sales, Integration Engineering, Implementation, Product, Support ¬– as part of the “early” startup phase

Previous roles: Operations Associate (Nov. 2016 - Jan. 2017); Operations Trainer (Jan. 2017 - Mar. 2017)

### Consultant @ Hitachi Consulting
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Chicago, IL
Hitachi Consulting is a mid-size consulting firm that offers consulting services as well as industrial & IoT solutions (via their parent Fortune 500 conglomerate, Hitachi Global)

Role focus: IoT and management/strategy consulting functions, including the following projects:
- Fortune 500 telecommunications companies required the design and implementation of process change management & training strategies amidst M&A activities
- Researched and recommended an IoT strategy and framework for Global Fortune 50 automotive manufacturer to be adopted by Global CIOs

### Student Consultant @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Urbana-Champaign, IL
The Department of Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering administers Senior Design projects in which a team of engineers are contracted to analyze various real-life business cases, typically within the manufacturing industry.

### Student Consultant @ OTCR Consulting
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Champaign, IL
OTCR Consulting is a student-run management and technology firm, with clients ranging in size from Fortune 1000 corporations to startups in a variety of industries and practice areas.

### Process Improvement Intern @ Schneider Electric
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Palatine, IL
Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management and automation, focuses on connected technologies and solutions to manage energy and process in ways that are safe, reliable, efficient and sustainable.

### Conservation/Maintenance Worker @ Moraine Hills State Park
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | McHenry, IL
Moraine Hills State Park is an Illinois state park located on 2,200 acres of lakes and forest preserves.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science in Systems Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

### Crystal Lake South High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dan-buchholz
- Website: https://danbuchholz.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-05