Daniel Durante, CTO and author

Daniel Durante - CTO & Author

Chief Technology Officer · Author · Researcher · Action Hero
me@danieldurante.com linkedin.com/in/daniel-durante github.com/durango

Professional Summary

Featured as a hero in real life and on the printing press in the Event Horizon: Inferno comic series. Currently CTO of Civic-Chain, a Transparency-as-a-Service (TaaS) platform for financial and government institutions. Former CTO of an options and derivatives market analysis platform; author and technical editor for Packt Publishing; consultant and strategist for Fortune 100 companies; and full-stack developer with over 25 years of experience. Developed projects used by companies such as Hubcash, Stripe, and Walmart. If you need a project to go from zero to one, let's talk.
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Experience

CTO & Co-Founder
Civic-Chain
2026 - Present
  • Infrastructure design and implementation following FIPS, SOC-II, and NIST SP 800-57 guidelines.
  • Design and implemented solicitation and proposal procurement process and procedures.
  • Implemented support for multiple stablecoins and FedNow ramps.
Infrastructure Director
LoyalLink
2023 - Present
  • Architected auto-scaling infrastructure on AWS capable of handling 10x traffic spikes during major on-sale events, reducing page load times by 30%.
  • Architected and deployed cloud-native applications using AWS services, reducing infrastructure costs by 30%
  • Built infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and Terragrunt, reducing environment provisioning time from days to under 30 minutes.
  • Developed CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions CI that enabled 50+ daily deployments with zero-downtime releases.
  • Automated infrastructure testing and security scanning, catching 80% of configuration issues before production.
CTO & Co-Founder
Genesis Volatility
2018 - 2023
  • Designed fault-tolerant matching engine architecture achieving 99.99% uptime across perpetual futures, options, and structured products.
  • Built real-time Greeks calculation engine (delta, gamma, vega, theta, rho) enabling dynamic hedging for market makers.
  • Architected and scaled a high-performance derivatives analysis engine processing 500K+ orders per second with sub-millisecond latency.
Principal Developer
FRST
2018 - 2020
  • Maintained an infrastructure (go and rust) for processing real time market data from over 10 exchanges including 900+ markets with a 99.9% SLA.
  • Processed on chain data (UXTO) and using 3rd party vendors to act as verification/Source-of-Truths.
  • Performed DevOps tasks (with Terraform and Saltstack) under AWS. Maintained logs, servers, and managed billing requirements.
  • Mentored and proctored students for an MBA/Engineering program at University of Chicago.

Technical Skills

Languages

PHP 4+, NodeJS 0.6+, Ruby, Python, Golang 1.2+, Rust 1.1+

Frameworks

jQuery, AngularJS, Backbone, Ruby on Rails 3, ExpressJS, Django, CakePHP, CodeIgniter, Sinatra, Magento, PhoneGap, Gulp, Grunt, Karma, Protractor, Babel, React/Redux, React Native, InfernoJS, VueJS

Cloud & DevOps

AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Nginx, Cherokee, Apache 2+, HaProxy, Caddy

Databases

MySQL 4+, Postgres 9.1+, MongoDB, CouchDB, ArangoDB, Redis, Riak, FoundationDB, ElasticSearch, DynamoDB

Projects & Contributions

  • Go-Credit-Card - https://github.com/durango/go-credit-card - Credit card validator written in Go-lang using the Luhn algorithm. Was used in a major credit card processing company.
  • SequelizeJS - https://github.com/sequelize/sequelize - One of the first NodeJS ORMs. Core member, oversees issues, implementation of hooks and various other helper methods.
  • Auth.net CIM - https://github.com/durango/authorize-net-cim - Authorize.net’s CIM API in NodeJS. Previously featured within their documentation.
  • InfernoJS - https://github.com/infernojs/inferno - Previously on the board of maintainers, implemented the initial setup for inferno-redux located at https://github.com/durango/inferno/tree/inferno-redux
  • Author — “Supercharging Node.js Applications with Sequelize” (Packt Publishing, 2022), ISBN-13: 9781801811552
  • Author — “Rust Standard Library Cookbook” (Packt Publishing, 2018), ISBN-13: 9781788623926
  • Technical Reviewer - Packt Publishing “Rust High Performance", published 2018 - ISBN13: 978-1788399487
  • Technical Reviewer - Packt Publishing “PostgreSQL Developer’s Guide", published 2015 - ISBN13: 978-1783989027
  • Technical Reviewer - Packt Publishing “PostgreSQL 9.6 High Performance 2nd Edition” - ISBN13: 978-1849510301
  • Technical Reviewer - Packt Publishing “Rust Programming by Example” - ISBN13: 978-1788390637