Craig Younkins
Software Engineer at Space Cow Media
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
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Top SchoolCraig Younkins is a software engineer with 14 years of experience building products across startups and high-profile teams, currently contributing at Space Cow Media in the DC–Baltimore area. His background spans embedded systems as a former CTO (designing PCBs, AVR firmware, and Bluetooth mobile apps), full-stack backend architecture as a former CEO who built AutoRef.com's core systems and task queues, and safety-focused work at Uber ATG. Early work includes security-focused contributions at OWASP—porting ESAPI to Python and founding PythonSecurity.org—and a privacy internship at Google where he improved internal tooling and uncovered security gaps. Craig blends hands-on low-level engineering with product-minded system design, comfortable moving between firmware, backend services, and mobile interfaces. He brings an unusual mix of electronics hardware experience and web-scale architecture that helps bridge product, security, and manufacturability concerns.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
UMBCBachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (200)
multiarch10
windows-app10
cassandra10
data-science10
nixpkgs10
nix10
python10
backup10
pihole10
docker-container10
dts10
tensorflow10
pypi10
deduplication10
retrying10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
cyounkins/nixpkgs
Nov 2018 - Oct 2023
Nix Packages collection
Contributions:43 pushes, 25 branches in 4 years 11 months
nixosnix-packages
cyounkins/Cura-OctoPrintPlugin
Mar 2019 - May 2024
Cura plugin which enables printing directly to OctoPrint and monitoring the process
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 branch, 1 comment in 5 years 3 months
octoprintprintingcura3d-printermonitoring
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