Dan C
President at Cailida Consulting
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDan C is an executive technologist and president with over three decades of leadership in high-assurance systems, cybersecurity strategy, and R&D, now running Cailida Consulting to commercialize cyber solutions. He blends hands-on technical depth—rooted in formal methods, specification languages, and high-assurance work dating back to NSA-reviewed projects—with senior-level experience in finance, personnel, and government relations. Dan has driven ecosystem-building initiatives such as the Global Cybersecurity Resource and Global EPIC, helping scale cybersecurity capabilities for companies and practitioners. As a longtime Carleton University collaborator and visiting scholar, he applies research techniques like topic modeling to inform practical cybersecurity programs and courses. He is comfortable moving between technical assessment and strategic decision-making, often applying technology-adoption theory to bridge research and customer value. Based in Ottawa, his career is notable for translating formal, academic-quality methods into widely used tools and international impact.
8 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc, Math/Computer Science, M.Sc, Math/Computer Science at Carleton University
Github Skills (3)
metron7
java5
apache4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
LTW-GCR-CSOC/csoc-installation-scripts
Sep 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:481 commits, 471 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
csocinstructionsinstallationcanaryinstallation-scripts
LTW-GCR-CSOC/ltw-gcr-csoc.github.io
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
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