Colin Mcdaniel
Musician at Self employed
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolColin Mcdaniel is a multidisciplinary developer, researcher, and professional musician with a decade of varied experience spanning performance, full-stack development, and data analysis. A UCLA summa cum laude cognitive science graduate now pursuing a PhD in Psychology at USC, he blends rigorous academic research with practical engineering—having served as a full-stack developer at LADOT and a research data analyst at Stanford. Equally at home improvising on stage or architecting software, he treats development as a creative, component-based problem-solving craft informed by interests in AI, filmmaking, and philosophy. His long-running career as a self-employed musician since 2005 gives him uncommon project ownership and client-facing experience for a technologist. This combination of artistic practice and empirical training enables him to translate human-centered insights into usable, well-designed systems.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, PSYCHOLOGY, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, PSYCHOLOGY at University of Southern CaliforniaCertificate of Jazz Performance, Brubeck Institute Fellowship Program, 3.96, Certificate of Jazz Performance, Brubeck Institute Fellowship Program, 3.96 at University of the PacificAward of Completion in Full Stack Web Development, Award of Completion in Full Stack Web Development at UCLA ExtensionBachelor of Science (B.S.), Cognitive Science, 3.94, summa cum laude, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Cognitive Science, 3.94, summa cum laude at University of California, Los Angeles
Spanish, American Sign Language, English
Github Skills (2)
planning6
database4
Github contributions (5)
colinmcdaniel/Portfolio
Jul 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:54 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
colinmcdaniel/Basic-Portfolio
Jun 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:21 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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