Daniel Ackermans
Computer Scientist at U.S. Army DEVCOM Armaments Center
Morris Plains, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Ackermans is a computer scientist and software engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building robotics and defense-related systems, currently working as a Computer Scientist with the US Army. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science & Music and an M.S. in Cognitive Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he led research assistant teams and contributed as a senior developer to an open-source academic project. His background spans embedded and systems engineering roles at RRAI and Parsons, combining practical field experience with academic rigor (4.0 MS GPA). Daniel brings leadership experience from managing residence communities and mentoring peers, translating people skills into effective cross-disciplinary collaboration on technical teams. A trained composer and double-reed instrumentalist, he blends musical creativity and cognitive science training into human-centered system design. Based in Morris Plains, NJ, he’s comfortable working at the intersection of research, software engineering, and operational deployment in high-stakes environments.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High school diploma, High school diploma at Peachtree Ridge High SchoolMaster of Science - MS, Cognitive Science, Master of Science - MS, Cognitive Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
English, Spanish
Github Skills (14)
partial10
scheduling8
open-data8
redis7
angular7
docker7
rails7
typescript6
ruby6
python5
jekyll5
frontend4
golang4
scheduler4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
marchdan/marchdan.github.io
Dec 2020 - Jul 2021
Personal page for Daniel P Ackermans
Contributions:4 PRs, 79 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
personal-pagejekyll
marchdan/MTech_blog
Jan 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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