About

Daniel Chong is a software engineer based in Las Vegas. He is currently studying at Duke University.

Previously, he took a leave from Duke to co-found Harpie, a startup that raised $5M.

He enjoys working with code but especially enjoys working with people. In his free time, he coaches professional TEKKEN and spends time with his cat.

Experience

• Late 2025
  Engineering Team Lead

  Lexsy

  Late 2025

  Built a RAG pipeline to analyze startups' legal documents and identify potential issues. Also coordinated communication between devs and the executive team.

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• 2021 – 2025
  Co-Founder

  Harpie

  2021 – 2025

  Raised $5M from Coinbase and Dragonfly to help protect people from digital asset hacks and scams. Protected $100M+ in digital assets. Grew to 22K weekly active users before winding down in 2025.

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Showcase

• rescue-contract

  Live-deployed Solidity contract that helped recover over $2M from compromised wallets by intercepting malicious transactions in transit. The contract processed 7,000+ transactions.

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• consul-ai

  Designed a Claude-powered agent that automates shareholder resolution voting for family offices; reduced director background research time by 90% (5m to 30s) by replacing freeform web browsing with explicitly defined web actions.

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