Eric Mcdaniel
Engineering Manager at Knowledge Futures
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric 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
Github Skills (117)
cms10
sctp10
game-development10
udp10
typescript10
nodejs10
webrtc10
multiplayer10
multiplayer-game10
rtc10
sublime-text9
archetype9
mog9
prediction9
pixijs9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
3mcd/silver
Oct 2023 - May 2025
experimental rewrite of Javelin v2
Contributions:2 PRs, 201 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
3mcd/codechat
Feb 2014 - Jul 2015
Contributions:63 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 5 months
reactsocket-iochat-applicationchatwebsocket
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