Dan Shookowsky
Lead R&D Engineer - Ansys Government Initiatives
Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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SeniorDan Shookowsky is a seasoned software engineer and R&D leader with over 25 years of experience delivering custom applications across industries including aerospace, defense, finance, and pharmaceuticals. As Lead R&D Engineer for Ansys Government Initiatives, he combines deep systems knowledge in .NET, C#, Java, and web/mobile stacks with practical expertise in automation (Bash, Python, PowerShell) and test/performance engineering. He has a long track record of shipping desktop, web, and mobile apps, contributing to space situational awareness tooling and geospatial servers, and resolving thorny issues like memory leaks and cryptographic automation. Known for modular, pattern-based design, he focuses on minimizing complexity to simplify maintenance and scaling in mission-critical environments. Based in Pennsylvania, he blends hands-on coding with mentoring, architecture, and operational automation—often turning legacy systems into maintainable, modern solutions.
14 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
English
Stackoverflow
221reputation
14kreached
7answers
3questions
Github Skills (51)
phonegap10
cordova10
cordova-android10
plugin10
cordova-plugin10
cordova-ios10
cordova-ios-plugin10
sender9
cnc7
code-editor6
raspberry6
wcf6
checkstyle6
android6
visual-studio6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dshookowsky/adventOfCode
Dec 2019 - Dec 2022
Contributions:35 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
FTC14354/ftc_app
Jun 2018 - Sep 2019
FTC Android Studio project to create FTC Robot Controller app.
Contributions:22 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 3 months
android-studiocontrollerftcandroidrobot
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