R Mccain
Co-Creator
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolR Mccain is a Stanford computer scientist and co-creator who builds privacy-minded, high-scale systems for investigations, safety, and observability. Over a decade of experience spans founding Atlos—which powers one of the largest public investigations into civilian harm in Ukraine—co-founding and exiting Paxo.ai, and building AI safety tooling supported by Floodgate Reactor. He combines production engineering (e.g., Shynet, a privacy-first analytics tool with strong GitHub traction) with research-grade reverse engineering and media-analysis pipelines developed at the Stanford Internet Observatory. His work has informed major outlets like the New York Times and TIME, and he brings a rare mix of cryptography-informed privacy engineering, open-source stewardship, and hands-on data ingest architectures that handle hundreds of millions of events per day.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Undergraduate, Undergraduate at Stanford UniversityHigh School Diploma, Cum Laude, Aurelian Honor Society Award, High School Diploma, Cum Laude, Aurelian Honor Society Award at Phillips Academy
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Github Skills (12)
web-analytics10
python10
analytics10
django10
javascript9
css8
html8
security8
bootstrap7
database7
databases7
bootstra7
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
milesmcc/shynet
Apr 2020 - Sep 2022
Modern, privacy-friendly, and detailed web analytics that works without cookies or JS.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:34 releases, 28 reviews, 322 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:R's initial commits set up the Django project, including core settings and configurations. Subsequent commits implemented preliminary monitoring capabilities by integrating session and hit tracking and removing the metadata. The user also added support for a17t, basic authentication, and created a basic stats listing and various view and template files, suggesting a strong focus on backend development with a strong understanding of frontend integration.
analyticspythona17tdjangoprivacy
darcymeyer/newstrality
Feb 2018 - Jan 2022
A platform to evaluate the ideological biases of the web.
Contributions:20 commits, 11 PRs, 16 pushes in 3 years 11 months
biasesevaluate
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