Morgan Mcdermott
CTO & Co-Founder at Daily
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolMorgan Mcdermott is a CTO and co-founder with 12 years of experience building distributed, intelligent systems from Austin, Texas. He leads AI-driven product and platform development at Daily, architecting in-house distributed systems and machine learning models to pursue a vision of abundance. Previously he served as CTO at Signal and has operated as a freelance machine learning engineer tackling NLP, time-series, and machine vision problems across domains like price prediction and satellite telemetry. Morgan blends hands-on research with production engineering, moving models from prototype to resilient, scale-ready infrastructure. His background in computer science from UC Santa Cruz and repeated founder roles reflect both entrepreneurial grit and deep technical breadth. He’s notable for pairing systems engineering fluency with applied ML research rather than treating them as separate disciplines.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa CruzGithub contributions (2)
stealthycoin/toilet_mapper
Oct 2013 - Dec 2013
Contributions:59 commits in 1 month
locatingbathroomreview
mmcdermo/Humpback-Recognition-Deep-CNN
May 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:21 commits in 15 days
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