Austin Mcdaniel
CEO Founder at AKA Identity
West Palm Beach, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolAustin McDaniel is a cybersecurity-focused software leader and founder with 14 years of hands-on engineering and 20+ years of industry experience shaping security products and teams. As CEO and founder of Good Code and former CTO/co-founder of CRFT (acquired by Flashpoint), he combines product vision with deep UI engineering—having built Swimlane from the ground up and led unique ASOC UI efforts at JASK and Sumo Logic. He holds four cybersecurity patents and has shipped or influenced more than two dozen security products across companies including Google, RSA, Mastercard, and the Department of Defense. An active open-source maintainer, Austin contributes front-end work to notable projects like Angular Material and data-visualization libraries reaviz/reaflow, blending practical UX improvements with browser compatibility fixes. Based in West Palm Beach, he balances executive leadership with code-level contributions, and is equally likely to be found refactoring a React chart component as advising startups on secure product architecture.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MBA I.T. Business, MBA I.T. Business at Keller Graduate SchoolCIS Web Development, CIS Web Development at DeVry University
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Github Skills (43)
data-visualizations10
javascript10
event-handling10
jquery10
ui-components10
component-development10
css10
testing10
typescript10
diagram10
data-visualisation10
ui-design10
uid10
material-design10
component-kit10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
reaviz/reaviz
Apr 2020 - Jan 2023
📊 Data visualization library for React. Maintained by @goodcodeus.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:268 reviews, 437 commits, 146 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Austin's commits primarily focus on the development and maintenance of UI components within the React library. They addressed specific issues related to the display of data visualizations such as null values in area charts. The user also made updates to component properties and implemented style adjustments within the library. Several commits focused on fixing type errors, indicating a focus on code quality and stability.
hive-plotvenn-diagramline-chartsreactjscharts
reaviz/reaflow
Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
🎯 React library for building workflow editors, flow charts and diagrams. Maintained by @goodcodeus.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:128 reviews, 409 commits, 63 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Austin primarily contributed to the development of the React-based user interface for a workflow editor library. Their work included implementing new UI components, such as a canvas for displaying diagrams and supporting features like drag-and-drop functionality. The user also refactored existing components and integrated additional styling options. Furthermore, they made improvements related to node and edge selection to enhance the user experience.
react-librarydiagramsreactchartsnode-editor
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