Daniel Roelker — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Co-founder and CEO of Observable Space, a venture-backed space technology company with over 1,000 enterprise and government customers worldwide.
Served over four years as VP of Software Engineering at SpaceX, leading a 350-engineer team for Falcon rockets, Dragon spacecraft, Starship, and Starlink.
Led cyber warfare research at DARPA, creating a $350 million portfolio of advanced offensive computer security technologies, including the PlanX program.
Founding developer at Sourcefire, where he wrote over half the code for the open-source intrusion prevention system Snort and was granted six patents.
Co-founded two hacker groups that were acquired by BAE Systems and Raytheon.
Chief technology adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Biography

Daniel Roelker is the co-founder and CEO of Observable Space, a venture-backed space technology company that provides vertically integrated hardware and software for on-planet and in-space observation and laser communication systems. The company serves over 1,000 enterprise and government customers worldwide and is headquartered in Los Angeles with an advanced manufacturing campus in Detroit.

Prior to Observable Space, Roelker spent more than four years as VP of Software Engineering at SpaceX.