Dan Dodge is a cocreator of the QNX microkernel real-time operating system, with Gordon Bell.
Dodge then moved to Kanata, Ontario, a high-tech area inside Ottawa, to start Quantum Software Systems.
It was later renamed QNX Software Systems to avoid confusion with a hard drive manufacturer.
In 1998, Dodge became the fourth awardee of the J. W. Graham Medal, named in honor of Wes Graham an early influential professor of computer science at the University of Waterloo, and annually awarded to an influential alumnus of the University's faculty of mathematics.
Dodge holds a master's degree in mathematics and was the chief executive officer of QNX Software Systems, a division of BlackBerry Limited.