Daniel Mclaughlin is a seasoned Staff Engineer with 14 years of experience building and owning backend services, databases, and full-stack systems from POC to Series B. Based in New York, he has repeatedly led small teams through product evolution—most recently at Emissary where he shipped a Python backend and React/Redux frontend on GCP—and now drives architecture at Stackglobal.io. He excels at debugging and systems design, comfortable launching entire architectures solo and maintaining them through growth and pivots. Known for taking full ownership, he’s the go-to engineer for thorny production issues and end-to-end delivery. His background spans data and platform engineering for high-throughput services as well as hands-on feature development at startups, reflecting a pragmatic blend of deep systems knowledge and product-focused execution.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech
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Daniel Mclaughlin - Staff Engineer at Stackglobal.io