Dana Irvin
President CTO at Necara Solutions LLC
Longmont, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDana Irvin is a seasoned software leader and President/CTO with 12+ years of experience designing and delivering mission-driven systems for the space and aviation sectors. She combines hands-on engineering in Java, C++, and Python with deep domain expertise in CCSDS space communications protocols (Space Packet, AOS, SLE) and a track record of leading embedded-to-cloud development efforts. Dana has led technical teams for NASA and NOAA ground station products and recently architected Apache Spark streaming and ETL solutions for aviation analytics, demonstrating fluency across high-reliability embedded systems and large-scale data pipelines. As founder of Necara Solutions and former principal systems architect, she blends product stewardship with systems-level architecture, often stepping into both coding and strategic roles. Based in Longmont, Colorado, she brings a practical, mission-focused mindset that favors interoperable, standards-based solutions and measurable operational outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Arizona
Github Skills (47)
json10
database-access10
poco10
redis-client10
networking10
http-server10
http-client10
internet10
xml-builder10
xml10
logging10
cross-platform9
linux9
sql9
ignite9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
hsfl/cosmos-core
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:14 commits in 7 days
pocoproject/poco
Feb 2015 - Apr 2018
The POCO C++ Libraries are powerful cross-platform C++ libraries for building network- and internet-based applications that run on desktop, server, mobile, IoT, and embedded systems.
Contributions:1 comment, 5 issues in 3 years 2 months
pocoobjectmapperc-plus-pluslogginghttp-server
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