Summary
Dan Rossiter is a principal-level systems engineer and Director of Engineering with 13 years of experience building mission-critical edge-to-cloud platforms for public-sector and defense-adjacent clients. He specializes in turning ambiguous, high-risk problems into durable, certifiable architectures across embedded, real-time perception, and large-scale distributed systems, and has led multi-million-dollar programs and architectural standards adopted across dozens of teams. Hands-on in languages and runtimes from C#/.NET and Python to Rust-based real-time video pipelines, he focuses on identifying failure modes early and aligning technical tradeoffs with business and regulatory constraints. Beyond software, he runs a rental-portfolio business applying engineering-style systems thinking to operations and capital strategy, reflecting a pragmatic blend of technical depth and commercial judgment.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of Texas at San Antonio