Summary
Dana Szova is a Chief Technology Officer with 11+ years of hands-on software engineering and leadership experience, specializing in Ad Tech, data management, and cloud-native architectures. She has architected and led full lifecycle product development—from backend microservices and data warehouses to React-based front ends and mobile SDKs—delivering analytics, attribution, and ETL systems used to publish audiences to DSPs like AppNexus and The Trade Desk. Her background blends mathematical science, IT systems administration, and network engineering, which informs pragmatic designs for GPS/location services, geospatial visualization, and high-throughput event tracking. Dana pairs product-savvy customer-facing experience from her consulting and sales roles with rigorous security hygiene in production environments. She has built custom advertising platforms, mapping tools, and ETL pipelines while personally implementing integrations with large-scale data backends (Cassandra/Spark) and third-party ad APIs. Based in Folsom, CA, she combines startup agility with enterprise-grade operational discipline to move complex ad-tech products from concept to production.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science - AS Computer Science, Associate of Science - AS Computer Science at Mount Royal University