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Daniel Nguyen

Daniel Nguyen

Infrastructure Engineer at Standard Compute

Daniel spent seven years building distributed systems at high-throughput fintech and adtech companies before joining Standard Compute. He designed the adaptive throttling and intelligent batching systems that make flat-rate compute sustainable. When a customer's agent fleet runs ten thousand requests in an hour without a hiccup, that's Daniel's infrastructure doing its job quietly.

Previously built real-time bidding infrastructure handling 2M+ requests per second. Holds a degree in computer engineering. Obsessed with P99 latency and deterministic queue behavior.

Areas of expertise

Distributed systemsGPU scheduling and orchestrationOpenAI-compatible API designAI agent workload infrastructure

Recent articles

My tool-calling agent looked amazing in demos and then double-charged people
2026-09-07 · 8 min read · Guide
I thought local whisper transcription would make call notes basically free and then cleanup became the whole job
2026-09-05 · 9 min read · Guide
My n8n lead agent looked fine until I realized it was dying at the Apollo, HubSpot, and JSON handoffs
2026-08-30 · 6 min read · Guide
My postgres ai automation stopped acting haunted when I quit trusting the prompt
2026-08-23 · 9 min read · Guide
I read the r/openclaw thread on the best $20 plan and realized everyone is solving the wrong problem
2026-06-12 · 9 min read · Guide
The moment an OpenClaw prompt should become a skill, script, or n8n job
2026-06-09 · 10 min read · Engineering
I got excited about free Nemotron and Kimi too, then my always-on agent started falling apart
2026-06-08 · 8 min read · Engineering
My browser mcp server stopped fighting LinkedIn the second I stopped making it do login
2026-05-26 · 4 min read · Guide
I read the 18-comment OpenClaw thread so you don’t have to and the answer is weirder than I expected
2026-05-23 · 9 min read · Engineering
I read the OpenClaw thread everyone shared — these 5 fixes cut agent costs to one-third and stopped the loops
2026-05-20 · 6 min read · Guide