Daniel Roelker

Daniel Roelker is currently cofounder and CEO of OurSky, a space startup company building a developer platform for space applications providing real-time observational data and analysis for objects in space. Dan was previously vice president of software engineering at SpaceX, where he led a team of more than 350 engineers building software for all activities within SpaceX, including rockets and spaceships as well as the Starlink satellite network. He led the team that developed the first successful return of a rocket booster to a recovery site for subsequent reuse. His team also developed the first Starship prototype. More recently, Dan was vice president of engineering at OpenSea, the world's leading NFT marketplace, quickly scaling the team and product through a singular period of growth in the company and Web3 industry at large. Dan also assembled and led the team of software engineers at Riot Games, which delivered a new desktop client for League of Legends. Dan started his career in cybersecurity as a lead developer at Sourcefire (later acquired by Cisco), where he wrote over half of the code for the open-source project Snort ID and was granted six patents. From there, Dan was recruited by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for its cyber warfare division as one of its youngest program managers, where he created a $350 million portfolio of advanced offensive computer security technologies. His flagship program PlanX was adopted as a formal program of record in the Department of Defense.