President & Chief Technology Officer
Touch Technologies, Inc.

Managing Member
Quantum Properties Technology, LLC


"Success requires the intersection of skills, timing, and a lot of luck. And this in turn requires persistence and focus."

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Biography

Inventor | Technology Visionary | Software Engineering Innovator | Practical CTO

Professional Summary:

Daniel Esbensen is a veteran software innovator, inventor, and security systems architect with more than four decades of experience building software for complex, mission-critical environments. He is recognized for foundational contributions to network intrusion detection and holds U.S. Patent No. 5,796,942, tied to early network monitoring and security work later connected to federal investigative systems. His work has supported technologies used in federal law enforcement and national security settings, including agencies such as the FBI, CIA, and NSA. His career combines decades of technical invention with hands-on experience in fields where reliability, security, trust, and operational scale are crucial requirements.


Skills:

  • Software engineering and architecture
  • Algorithm design
  • Building large systems
  • Patent strategy
  • Leadership in High-Stakes Innovation Environments
  • Cyber security and data protection

Professional Experience:

Sets the direction and runs the technical work at Quantum Properties Technology, building cyber security products.

  • Built software products, including a widely used Dynamic Load Balancer for OpenVMS systems.
  • Ran research and product development in network security and data encryption.
  • Managed partnerships and was the main technical contact for large companies such as HPE
  • Strong knowledge of HIPAA rules and regulations

Led software development and company projects for business systems.

Led several software projects and set product direction.

  • Consulted on technology for Citicorp, Boeing, and the U.S. Office of the President. The work covered secure software, smoother day-to-day operations, and security practices.
  • **Cyber Security Consultant for the Marine Auxiliary Cyber Security Division**, where he was chosen to teach strengthening cyber defenses.
  • **Department of Energy**, helped provide network-wide security.
  1. **Financial Sector:** Built transaction processing and data encryption software for Citicorp and Bank of America, improving security across banking systems.
  2. **Aerospace:** Built manufacturing software tools for Boeing to speed up production.
  3. **Utilities and Government:** Updated infrastructure technologies for Envision Electrical Utility and advised the US Office of the President on systems development.
  4. **Automotive and Retail:** Designed fleet management for Hertz Rental Car of New Zealand and built optimized inventory placement software for Hallmark.
  • **Adjunct Professor of Computer Technologies**, College of Saint Scholastica, Duluth, Minnesota, age 17
  • Taught advanced programming concepts at the **University of Wisconsin** graduate level, age 18.

Key Achievements:

  • US 5,796,942 — Automated network-wide surveillance.
  • US 8,164,492 — Fast data encoding and decoding.
  • US 7,124,427 — Methods for Highly scalable, nationwide video surveillance
  • **Languages:** ActionScript, C, C#, C++, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python, SQL
  • **Tools & Technologies:** GIT, Visual Studio, Eclipse, MongoDB, Amazon AWS, TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/S
  • **Platforms:** Android, HTML5, Microsoft, Adobe Flash
  • IEEE Standards Committee
  • ANSI Standards Committee
  • Master Teacher, University Austin, Texas
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The Quantum Apocalypse – Why we need to update today's cryptography now!
Today’s business and communications infrastructure is fundamentally dependent on cryptography. "Public-key cryptography" was first publicly discovered in 1976 and relied on “difficult puzzles,” which are much harder to solve than they are to create.
In the years since larger and larger quantum computers have been constructed to the point where today’s public-key infrastructure could be broken soon. Many of these systems are based on the difficulty of factoring the product of two large primes. While no classical algorithm has been found for this, in 1994, Peter Shor found a fast algorithm for “quantum computers.”

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Testimonials

I've known Dan for many years and we worked together on one big project. Dan is very creative and comes up with unexpected solutions to problems. He's very savvy about both technical issues and the business and people issues which often arise in projects. He's helped me a lot in understanding and dealing with the patent system and he helped a friend navigate outsourcing programming projects overseas. Dan is unfailingly positive and supportive. He's always inventing creative solutions to problems and brings a great curiosity to almost any subject. He created his own programming language and development environment and has built innovative systems for ecommerce, security, education, video chat, AI dialog systems, and many more. I think he will make a big positive difference to any project he's involved with. 

Steve Omohundro  

Research Scientist at Facebook, AI for Metaverse creators

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I have worked with Dan on a couple of innovative products, on development of an Alexis speech recognition skill. I have worked with some amazing engineers in my time, but none more productively and constructively engaged than Dan. He understands technologies and their potential applications, and he knows how to provide product leadership in creative new ways. In short, Dan is a powerful technologist and a great guy to work with.

Merle Tenney 

International Development Manager — Localization, Internationalization, and Natural Language Processing

Testimonials

Dan's quick uptake and absolutely reliable follow through is only the tip of the iceberg - he is one of the best technologists I have worked with. Whenever I have a project that everyone else thinks is "too hard" that's when I bring Dan in and he adds tremendous value - by being very specifically targeted at what is to be achieved and getting it done with no fuss whatsover - delivery on time as required. Even though the complexity of software design and coding can and does trip up many projects, Dan thinks through to the last detail: I have not seen him tripped up.

Mei Lin Fung 

Chair & Cofounder, People Centered Internet, Cofounder ImpactX, Chair IEEE IC Social Impact Measurement 

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Dan has not only superb computational skills and hardwired to solve complex problems, his creative mindset drives him to find innovative solutions to common issues as well. I've worked with him on multiple projects. In addition to his advanced technology knowledge, what's most impressive to me is Dan's genuine interest in his colleagues and clients. While most technical people are not too social, when it comes down to it, Dan is an amazing motivator and people person.

Laleh Shahidi, Ph.D. 

Health and Wellness, Health Informatics, Employee Engagement, Change Leadership

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