Daniel Heater
Sr. Software Developer at Imprivata
Huntsville, Alabama, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Heater is a senior software developer with 12+ years building mission-critical and security-focused systems, from device drivers and real-time avionics to endpoint detection and browser-based RDP clients. He combines deep C/C++ systems expertise with modern build and CI tooling (Conan, CMake, Docker, GitHub/GitLab CI) and has added Rust+WASM to his toolkit to deliver web-native remote access. Past roles at NASA and defense contractors show proven experience in hard real-time, safety-critical architectures and hardware-in-the-loop testing, while recent work at Imprivata and VMware Carbon Black emphasizes cybersecurity and reliable cross-platform clients. A pragmatic legacy-code wrangler and open-source contributor, he has contributed Conan recipes and tests to the widely used conan-center-index repository. Known as a mentor and team-focused engineer, he pays attention to team dynamics and process improvements as much as to shipping robust code. Based in Huntsville, he pairs a mathematics degree and naval nuclear training with a rare blend of low-level systems credibility and modern web/Rust tooling.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
US Navy Electronics Tech "A" SchoolNaval Nuclear Prototype TrainingThe University of Alabama in HuntsvilleNaval Nuclear Power SchoolB.S. Mathematics, B.S. Mathematics at Athens State University
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Github Skills (18)
cpp-library10
c-language10
package-management10
conan10
cprogramming-language10
dependency-analysis9
dependency-manager9
dependency-management9
unit-testing9
ruby-on-rails9
unit-test9
cmake8
libcurl7
doxygen6
powershell6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
conan-io/conan-center-index
Jan 2020 - Dec 2021
Recipes for the ConanCenter repository
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 25 commits, 25 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to recipes and testing for the ConanCenter repository. They added and modified recipes for C++ libraries, specifically ApprovalTests.cpp, and implemented corresponding test packages. Their work involved creating, modifying, and refining Conan recipe files, incorporating different unit testing frameworks and configuring CMake builds for testing. The user also made changes to libcurl recipes and included associated updates.
dependenciescpprecipespackage-managerconan-recipe
vmware-archive/cbsensor-linux-kmod
Jul 2020 - Oct 2020
Linux Kernel module for Carbon Black EDR
Contributions:19 releases, 23 reviews, 33 commits in 3 months
kernellinux-kernel-modulelinuxedrlinux-kernel
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