Austin Mcdaniel
CEO Founder at Good Code
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.
15 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
testing10
component-development10
css10
typescript10
diagram10
data-visualisation10
ui-design10
uid10
material-design10
component-kit10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
swimlane/ngx-datatable
May 2016 - Apr 2018
✨ A feature-rich yet lightweight data-table crafted for Angular
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 1018 commits, 273 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Austin's contributions focused on the enhancement and modification of existing Angular-based data table components. These included the addition of new pipes for ordering, and the implementation of new styling and interactive features, such as dynamic row height, column dragging, and expanded rows. The commits involved substantial changes in the core components and design of the data table, indicating an effort to enhance both its functionality and visual appeal within the Angular framework.
angulardatatablegridangular-componentsdatagrid
swimlane/ngx-ui
Aug 2016 - Jan 2018
🚀 Style and Component Library for Angular
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1046 commits, 48 PRs, 668 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Austin contributed to building out UI components and styling the components within the Angular library. The code changes reflect the addition of various UI elements such as buttons, text fields, and calendars, adding basic templating for the components, as well as layout design using Flex-layout. The user's work focuses on implementing user interfaces and the associated CSS styling to match the project's intended design language.
angulardirectivedialogdrawericons
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