About me

I am an ex-astrophysicist, dev-ops data scientist, designer, classical vocalist, photographer, father, and the CEO of Binary Coalescence.

I founded Binary Coalescence in 2013 while finishing my astrophysics doctoral research. I have developed a number of open source software and web projects and now primarily offer software development, dev-ops, data science, and design consulting services.

I am also the Executive Director of the Arcist Foundation, a non-profit I recently established to cultivate a community of learning beyond traditional academia.

My background is in galactic- and extragalactic-scale computational astrophysics. In 2015, I received my Ph.D. in physics from Vanderbilt, where I researched black hole interactions, galaxy collisions, and the evolution of dark matter halos in the early Universe, working in a high performance compute cluster environment to run large-scale N-body simulations and data analysis.

I have taught physics and astronomy labs, lectures, and computational workshops as an undergrad, grad student, and instructor. As part of my nuclear physics undergrad research at Tennessee Tech, I designed a high-vacuum ion beam target that was integrated into the HRIBF particle accelerator at Oak Ridge National Lab.

For fun, I sing with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra in the Nashville Symphony Chorus, of which I've been a member for over a decade. I dabble in photography and sometimes even take a good picture. I've developed several personal dev-ops projects, including, most notably, a self-hosted microservice swarm for various family-use web services at sissom.net.

Follow me on Mastodon -> @daniel@sissom.net

Read my blog -> openquestion.net

Come to a concert -> Nashville Symphony Orchestra