Craig Mcdaniel is a Staff Software Engineer in Atlanta with 17 years of hands-on experience building high-reliability systems across languages and platforms, from HP NonStop transaction servers and C++ to Python microservices and machine-learning audio APIs. Currently at Pindrop he designs and implements microservices and libraries that apply voice and audio ML for authentication and fraud detection, blending signal-processing insight with scalable API design. His background includes deep OS and cloud expertise—Linux/Windows internals, hypervisors, and cloud migration tooling—and a history of shipping performance-sensitive features like multiprocessing data transfers and subprocess management libraries. Craig’s career spans embedded and telecom systems, large-scale transaction processing, and consulting, reflecting an unusual comfort moving between low-level systems and modern cloud-native stacks. He holds advanced degrees in biochemistry and electrical engineering, a combination that hints at analytical rigor and interdisciplinary problem solving applied to software architecture.
17 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
University of Georgia
MS, Electrical Engineering, MS, Electrical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
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Craig Mcdaniel - Staff Software Engineer at Pindrop