Steve Mcclung
Engineering Scientist at Applied Research Laboratories, The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Mcclung is an Engineering Scientist and front-end-focused UI engineer with a decade of experience building data products, visualization platforms, and scalable internal tools for organizations like LinkedIn, Toyota Connected, Dell, and ARL:UT. He brings a unique blend of geosciences and GIS background to UI engineering, turning complex geo-data and anomaly-detection workflows into clear, usable interfaces using JavaScript, React/Ember, D3 and modern front-end tooling. Steve excels at cross-functional collaboration with data engineers and analysts to deliver robust data standardization, monitoring, and trend-analysis solutions that prioritize performance and accessibility. He values hands-on problem-solving—having fought many production fires with high-performing teams—and now applies those lessons to hiring and team-building, probing candidates with real-world crisis narratives. Based in Austin, he pairs academic training in geosciences with practical experience shipping mission-critical dashboards and reusable visualization components.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BA, International Studies, Digital Media, BA, International Studies, Digital Media at Abilene Christian UniversityMS in Geosciences, Physical Geography & GI Science, MS in Geosciences, Physical Geography & GI Science at Oregon State UniversityAA, Computer Science, AA, Computer Science at Harding UniversityAA, AA at York College
Spanish, Russian
Github Skills (25)
data-stream10
apache-pinot10
realtime10
apache-flink10
pinot10
big-data10
metadata10
apache10
datastore10
java10
olap10
datahub9
data-governance9
data-management9
linkedin9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
newsummit/WhereHows
Jun 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:7 pushes in 3 months
lineagedata-sciencedata-discoverybig-datadiscovery
newsummit/ember-demo1
Sep 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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