About
Dan Pilone is cofounder and CEO of Element 84, a software development firm specializing in large scale geospatial data systems. He has supported NASA's Earth Observing System for over 15 years, as well as other commercial and government clients including NOAA, USGS, KSAT, Philadelphia Water Department, and Ursa Space. Dan has specifically supported transitioning NASA’s Petabyte scale archive to the cloud, contributed to metadata standards, and led multiple working groups on data services and cloud architectures. Outside of Element 84 Dan has authored multiple books on software development and taught Software Engineering at Catholic University in Washington DC.
