Daniel Baker
Member, Board Of Directors at Collins Aerospace
Santa Barbara, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorDaniel Baker is a technology entrepreneur and aviation enthusiast with 11 years of formal experience and a multi-decade track record founding and scaling mission-critical internet and aviation platforms. He founded FlightAware, built into the world’s largest digital flight-tracking company and acquired by Collins Aerospace, and now serves on multiple aviation, cultural, and investment boards including the National Business Aviation Association and the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Equally at home advising aerospace incumbents and early-stage investors, he blends hands-on product and operations experience from founding startups to pioneering distributed computing in the 1990s. Based in Santa Barbara, he pairs technical depth with strategic governance, often bringing systems-scale thinking from his early ISP and distributed computing work into aviation technology. An investor and advisor with a knack for turning complex infrastructure into commercially viable services, he remains passionate about making aviation data broadly useful and accessible.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (3)
piaware10
ads10
forwarding10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
flightaware/piaware
Feb 2015 - Dec 2015
Client-side package and programs for forwarding ADS-B data to FlightAware
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 10 months
adsclient-sideads-bforwardingprograms
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