About us

Why this team delivers it.

Civic-Chain is built by three co-founders with extensive backgrounds in government technology, federal IT delivery, and enterprise systems infrastructure.

Three founders. One mission.
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Justin Harvey

CPO · GovTech Payments & Revenue Cycles

Builder since childhood, with more consumer electronics on the bench than a defunct Best Buy. Built schools on mission trips in Africa and mentored kids as a summer camp counselor. Father.

Track record

  • 6+ years building government payment products at a leading GovTech provider
  • 4x patent creator, blockchain finance & GovTech inventions
  • Ran $500M/year SaaS payment processing across 20+ agencies, millions of users
  • Founder, 45th Parallel Risk Management
  • GLG Council Member / VisasQ, advises institutional investors vetting GovTech and payment platforms before acquisition and investment
  • Business development across maritime consulting and municipal government
  • Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) and multiple other certifications
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Michael Stansfield

CEO · Program Delivery & Org Design

Farmer when he's off the clock, and a lifelong operator in high-stakes environments.

Track record

  • 18+ years of leadership and large-program delivery
  • Deputy Lead Enterprise Agile Coach, US Navy NMCI/NGEN, 65 teams and 700 staff across the world's largest Windows intranet (classified and unclassified environments)
  • Lead Coach and Release Train Engineer, US Army Training Information System program
  • US Army National Guard and Reserves, Enlisted Combat Medic and Commissioned Officer (Mustang)
  • SAFe / Agile Transformation expert across multiple 5+ team organizations
  • Splinterlands DeFi, world's largest blockchain game (2022), and over a decade in blockchain and decentralized finance
  • National-level logistics and operations, EMT (911), Incident Command, ESF8 Lead, Hurricane Sandy response, Brooklyn Emergency Operations Center
  • Cross-domain experience across municipal, telecom, finance, business operations, military, and blockchain
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Daniel Durante

CTO · Realtime Infrastructure & DeFi

Welder, motorcyclist, and carpenter when he isn't shipping code.

Track record

  • 13+ years full-stack engineering for Fortune 100 companies
  • CTO, Genesis Volatility, real-time infrastructure across 900+ markets at 99.9% uptime
  • Led Department of Transportation solicitation and proposal support nationwide
  • Code shipped in Stripe, Walmart, and Hubcash
  • Node / Go / Rust; blockchain and DeFi systems
  • Published technical author for Packt Publishing
  • Authored one of the first Authorize.net Node.js libraries, featured in Authorize.net's documentation
  • Built and ran a text-based browser game with 100,000+ active players in high school
  • Optimized CNC production for one of HGTV's top-selling products (Fracture), improving inventory and floor throughput
  • Mentored University of Chicago students in a hybrid MBA and Computer Science doctorate program