Daniel Martin
Principal Engineer at CrowdStrike
Greater Philadelphia United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Martin is a Principal Engineer with 12+ years of experience building secure, production-grade software at companies including CrowdStrike and Google. He brings deep systems and compiler expertise—having progressed from Sr. Compiler Developer to principal-level engineering leadership—paired with a strong mathematical foundation (MA, Johns Hopkins; BA, Carleton). Based outside Philadelphia, he prioritizes local roles and practical engineering trade-offs over relocation, and approaches new technologies like LLMs and blockchain with healthy skepticism. Known for pragmatic problem-solving in security-focused environments, he excels at turning complex algorithms into reliable, maintainable systems. Colleagues rely on him for rigorous technical judgment and for pushing back on solutions that favor hype over engineering rigor.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityBA, Mathematics, Magna Cum Laude, BA, Mathematics, Magna Cum Laude at Carleton College
English, German
Stackoverflow
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301answers
12questions
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guice
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haskell
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Github Skills (161)
http10
protoc10
lempel-ziv10
flask10
marshalling10
handbrake10
protocol-buffers10
automatic10
protobuf10
java10
serialization10
rpc10
transcode10
dvd10
markov-chain9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
fizbin/killfile-extension
Oct 2013 - Feb 2017
Contributions:58 commits, 1 PR, 15 pushes in 3 years 5 months
fizbin/unicode_inspector
Nov 2018 - Mar 2025
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch, 1 tag in 6 years 5 months
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