# Daniel Hines

> Software Engineer

Location: Costa Mesa, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/danielhines

I'm a software engineer with a love for functional programming, type theory, distributed systems, and a dash of logic programming. Btw I use Nix.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ BrightSpec, Inc.
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
I work on the instrument control and analytics platform for the first industry-ready molecular resonance rotational spectrometer. The mix of Rust, web tech, hard science, and very very smart scientist coworkers is extremely dope.

### Founder/CEO @ SetaPay.io
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Norfolk, Virginia, United States
SetaPay was a cryptocurrency payment gateway and marketplace featuring non-custodial chargebacks. In a single quarter I took our product from idea to MVP, deploying to Tezos Mainnet and processing our first sales on the platform.

### Software Engineer @ Marigold
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023
Core contributor to the Tezos blockchain and project lead for the Deku sidechain project.

### Software Engineer @ ChartIQ
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020

### Data Analyst @ Regent University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Kinesiology and Exercise Science
Old Dominion University
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/daniel-hines-4852bb1a7

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Last updated: 2026-03-22