# Daniel Smith > Senior Software Engineer at Phantom Location: San Gabriel, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/danielsmith Web3 Developer and Advocate. Blockchain paves the way for the future. Interested in working on projects that are doing big things and making a difference in the world. Excited about emerging technologies and their adoption to better improve and/or disrupt the current industry status quo. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Phantom Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 ### Blockchain Systems Engineer @ DraftKings Inc. Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Remote ### DevOps Engineer @ Upgrade, Inc. Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Remote Working as a DevOps Engineer at Upgrade, Inc. to help automate all of the things 🙂 ### Financial Blockchain Operations Engineer @ IBM Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Costa Mesa, California ### Financial Blockchain Operations Onboarding Engineer @ Granite Solutions Groupe, Inc. Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Costa Mesa, California Consulted on technical matters regarding blockchain and software development. Aided with integrating new blockchain solutions into traditional infrastructure. Traveled internationally to clients to interface and facilitate the on-boarding process and provide in person solutions engineering. Helped educate clients on the benefits and drawbacks of distributed ledger technology and the various pros and cons introduced by public and permission-ed chains. Worked on client-facing portal built with Angular and Firebase and interfaced with a micro-service api written in Golang. Enabled api sandboxing based off Swagger files provided by development team. Built documentation guiding clients through the api sandbox and blockchain platform. ### Web Developer @ University of Southern California Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater Los Angeles Area Full stack developer for USC Institute of Neuroimaging and Informatics. Addressed tickets on Jira and fixed bugs in various Golang and WordPress sites within the department in a loose Agile environment with weekly scrum meetings. Collaborated via Confluence and Gitlab branches with other developers, designers, content creators, and management to bring new projects to production from localized test environments. Helped develop reporting software in Golang to continuously monitor all sites under management. Created multi-threaded recursive, parallel web crawler to check sites and all linked sites for broken links etc and report those issues to the entire department through email as issues occur. Built backend server along with REST API, database, and site functionality for custom content management system built from scratch to help manage and give access to data regarding institute grants, publications, researchers, etc. Used Docker to containerize the server and the database for the content management system to allow for easy deployment and scaling. ### Webmaster @ University of Southern California Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Greater Los Angeles Area Full stack web development for employee and event management website at USC Trojan Events. I was in charge of developing and maintaining both the site's front-end and back-end as well as working on tickets for bugs and errors as they occurred. Used PHP-based Codeigniter framework and MySQL database. Bootstrap was used for styling front-end elements and to add responsiveness across varying platforms. ### Freelance Web Developer @ Freelance Web Development Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Greater Los Angeles Area Wrote a web crawler in Python to simulate a user login and then scrape restaurant menus and prices from popular food delivery service to store in a SQL database for later analysis. Built portfolio sites from scratch with Angular and WordPress and deployed them onto various hosting services (AWS, Firebase, Google). Provided custom admin panels for sites not using WordPress and documentation for how to use and operate their sites. Built front end web application for ticket exchange company in Angular. Updated legacy application to newest version and tied into prebuilt company backend. Implemented design provided to me by designer with Angular Material and mocked data using Firebase before deployment onto AWS EC2 instance. ## Education ### Computer Science University of Southern California Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/danielsmithdev - Website: https://danielsmithdevelopment.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/danielsmith JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/danielsmith/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22