ABOUT US
Binary Coalescence is a Nashville-based technology and software consulting firm founded in 2013. Since inception, we have been focused on bringing open source technology solutions to real world problems.
Daniel Sissom, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer / DevOps Data Scientist
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.