Experience
ispace Europe
Senior Software Engineer, Software Group Manager
June 2019 – February 2024
First software engineer at ispace Europe, responsible for laying the technical groundwork for a major business initiative around data. Building GIS tools and computing infrastructure to assist mission planning workflows for a wide array of lunar missions. Promoted to Software Group Manager in 2023, heading up a team of 8 people.
Software Engineer
June 2015 – August 2018
Frontend and backend development for Google Maps, Search, Assistant, and Cloud Platform. You've likely run code that I've written. As side projects I helped to bring Street View to the International Space Station and added other planets to Maps.
Global Foundation for Ocean Exploration
Data Management Intern
April 2015
Spent three weeks on a ship off the coast of Puerto Rico exploring the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean. Maintained video pipelines for dive recordings from ROV cameras to YouTube livestreams and archives.
University of New Hampshire
Research Assistant
January 2014 – June 2015
Contributed to research both in data visualization and motion planning for robotics. Data visualization research focused primarily around quantifying the cognitive benefit of animation in vector field displays, while motion planning research explored using spatial decompositions to more intelligently weight RRT searches.
UNH InterOperability Lab
Software Engineer
June 2011 – December 2013
Developed and maintained a large library of drivers essential for in-house testing automation software, as well as contributed extensively to the central automation engine. Redesigned and implemented a website for reporting test results.
Publications
Bolan D. & Calzada Díaz, A., 2023. European Lunar Symposium 2023, p. 34. Continuous-Domain Constrainment of Lunar Meteorite Source Regions.
Calzada Díaz, A., Bolan D., & Puntar M., 2020. 51st Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Mission Planning for a Lunar Polar Mission: ispace's Polar Ice Explorer.
Ware C., Bolan D., Miller R., Rogers D. H., & Ahrens J. P., 2016. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Perception SAP '16. Animated versus static views of steady flow patterns. doi:10.1145/2931002.2931012
Education
Master of Science
University of New Hampshire
2013 – ongoing
GPA 3.75/4. Part of the accelerated Masters program. Nearly complete, but left early to start working in industry.
Bachelor of Science
University of New Hampshire
2010 – 2014
GPA 3.58/4, Magna Cum Laude. Dean's List four years, National Prime Users Group Scholarship, Undergraduate Research Fellowship, and others.