Summary
Daniel Pittman is a seasoned technical consultant and academic with over a decade of experience building secure, cloud-native web and mobile systems and teaching computer science at MSU Denver and the University of Denver. He blends hands-on engineering—modern CI/CD, Docker/Kubernetes, AWS, and multi-model persistence—with interdisciplinary HCAI research spanning robotics, VR, ML, cybersecurity, and HCI aimed at societal impact. As Chief Scientist at Pittmo LLC and lead developer on production products and mobile apps, he pairs product delivery experience with academic rigor (PhD in CS) to shepherd projects from prototype to HIPAA-compliant deployments. Currently modernizing conversational AI for an autonomous social robot, he applies RAG, LangChain/LangGraph, and multi-backend LLM strategies to improve eldercare interactions. Notably, he has repeatedly translated large enterprise architecture work into teachable curricula and student capstones, seeding industry-ready talent while advancing applied research.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at University of West Florida
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Booker T. Washington High School
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at University of Denver
English