Daniel Mccarthy
Director at Dragon Zap
Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Mccarthy is a low-level software engineer and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience, currently directing Dragon Zap Ltd and creating widely used online courses that have taught over 100,000 students in 150+ countries. He builds compilers, interpreters, firmware and bootable code by preference, and has created two programming languages plus a security-focused backend language (Marble). As a best-selling instructor in kernel development and a director of multiple product ventures (including Green Bucket and Donkey Coupon), he blends deep systems expertise with product-building and publishing. Based in Cardiff, he pairs MSc-level academic training with hands-on development of Linux VFS drivers and other production C code, showing a rare commitment to low-level control and complexity.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Advanced Computer Science, MSc Advanced Computer Science at Cardiff Metropolitan University
Github Skills (79)
linux-kernel10
c-compiler10
unix9
browser9
cli9
python9
operating-system9
ata9
php9
chip89
64-bit9
kernel9
bit9
chatgpt-api8
chatgpt8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
nibblebits/COS32
May 2020 - Dec 2020
32 Bit Protected Mode Operating System COS32(Computer Operating System 32 Bit)
Contributions:127 commits, 2 PRs, 54 pushes in 6 months
32-bitoperating-system
nibblebits/DragonCompiler
Mar 2021 - Oct 2022
A C compiler written in C
Contributions:335 commits, 190 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 7 months
c-compiler
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