Eric Mcdaniel is an engineering manager with 12 years of experience building web and multimedia software, currently leading engineering at Knowledge Futures and helping build public digital infrastructure at PubPub. He blends hands-on development—especially front-end and multiplayer/gamedev networking libraries—with people leadership that values freedom, accountability, creativity, and candor. His background spans startups, consulting, and media (including CNN), and he’s taught immersive front-end bootcamps, giving him a strong track record of mentoring and shipping production systems. Trained originally in biological sciences, he brings a research-minded curiosity to engineering problems and a knack for pragmatic tooling that helps teams move faster.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Biological Sciences, BS, Biological Sciences at University of South Carolina-Columbia
Contributions:63 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 5 months
reactsocket-iochat-applicationchatwebsocket
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Eric Mcdaniel - Engineering Manager at Knowledge Futures