David Mittman

David has been developing software for over 30 years, and is currently co-managing an organization of 200 engineers and scientists involved in operating some of NASA’s most successful robotic spacecraft exploring the Solar System and beyond. His software helped plan the Mars Pathfinder mission that put the first ever rover on Mars in the late 1990s, and is planning observations for NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope today. David is a developer advocate at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California, where he is helping to change the culture of collaboration across the organization, and is working to modernize the state of software development for the Lab’s eleven hundred software developers.