Dan Davis
Technical Manager - Research Computing at Smithsonian Institution
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Davis is a seasoned technical manager and systems architect with 11+ years leading research computing and digital preservation initiatives, currently directing the SIdora research infrastructure at the Smithsonian. He combines deep domain expertise in open-source repository technologies (Fedora, Islandora, DuraCloud) with hands-on experience in service-oriented integration, messaging, and cloud storage (Apache Camel, ActiveMQ, AWS, iRODS) to enable durable, shareable research lifecycles. A proven startup founder and former CTO at DuraSpace, he has shaped national-scale preservation projects and led cross-institutional efforts to capture contextual research data for long-term reuse. His background spans high-performance compute access, workflow orchestration, and semantic/data modeling, and he brings a rare mix of naval operations leadership and decades of enterprise R&D that informs pragmatic, resilient system design.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science Engineering, MS, Computer Science Engineering at University of Florida
Github Skills (15)
trap9
ingest9
semantic-web8
linked-data8
triplestore8
spi8
sparql7
rdf7
camera7
islandora5
workbench5
queue4
api3
api-client3
fedora1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Smithsonian/sidora-xsl
Mar 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
exhibitionworkbench
Smithsonian/sidora-docker
Oct 2017 - Mar 2019
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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