Jason Dalton
Chief Technology Officer at Daybreak LLC
McLean, Virginia, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolJason Dalton is a seasoned technology executive and entrepreneur who serves as CTO of Daybreak, leading strategy and innovation in cloud-native geospatial analytics for public safety, national security, energy, and infrastructure clients. He has a track record of turning R&D into revenue—scaling SPADAC from a one-person lab into a 25-person, $5M business that was acquired by GeoEye—and later founding Azimuth1 to apply high-throughput data science to resource-allocation problems. Trained in environmental science and systems engineering (MS, PhD ABD, UVA), he blends applied statistics, predictive technologies, and machine learning with deep domain experience in GIS and remote sensing dating back to childhood. His leadership is shaped by field-tested crisis management from leading a 100-member wilderness search-and-rescue team and by a preference for simplicity and operational practicality honed while working with state and local law enforcement. Jason is passionate about wringing actionable insight from messy spatial data and building teams and platforms that deliver life-saving outcomes at scale.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Candidate Systems and Information Engineering, PhD Candidate Systems and Information Engineering at University of Virginia
Stackoverflow
725reputation
46kreached
8answers
8questions
matrix
top-5%
Github Skills (67)
matrix9
3d-models8
data-management7
excel7
rescue7
jekyll7
3d6
waffle6
jquery6
datatable6
highcharts6
3d-reconstruction6
spreadsheet6
javascript6
r6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
JasonDalton/DigitalVista
Aug 2016 - Feb 2025
Contributions:21 pushes, 2 branches in 8 years 6 months
Azimuth1/azimuth1-new-website
Oct 2020 - Dec 2023
Contributions:2 reviews, 7 PRs, 300 pushes in 3 years 2 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.