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Maceo Cardinale Kwik

Maceo Cardinale Kwik

Full-stack software engineer focused on performance and user experience

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Brooklyn, New York
Joined April 2026
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Summary

Full‑stack engineer focused on performance and user experience: Maceo builds production-facing systems ranging from WebGL visualizations to distributed backends, preferring TypeScript in day-to-day work and exploring systems languages like Rust and Go for curiosity and performance. maceock+1
Early‑stage founder and CEO: Maceo co-founded Datost, an AI data-analyst copilots-in-Slack startup, and is listed as founder/CEO on multiple company profiles, showing a transition from engineering roles to startup leadership. ycombinator+1
Active open-source maker and project-driven learner: Maintains several public projects (data-visualization, cellular automata, toolkits) and documents progress publicly, signaling a hands-on approach to learning and shipping code. github+1
Student recognized for academic achievement while pursuing CS studies: Documented as a computer science student at Virginia Tech with Honors College recognition and prior study at Penn State, reflecting strong academic performance early in university. vt+1
Community and leadership involvement: Early roles include co-founding Lighthouse Startups and coordinating outreach for cultural/educational programs, indicating engagement with student leadership and community initiatives alongside technical work. zoominfo+1

Work

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Writing

An Open Letter to the Department of War and Congress

March 1, 2026

Signed contribution as CEO & Founder, Datost to a public letter from technology founders and leaders regarding government actions and AI policy.

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A public blog of Maceo Cardinale Kwik

Personal blog documenting Maceo's coding journey, technical learnings, and reflections as a computer science student and developer; used to practice Markdown and teach others through summaries.

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Hobbies

Technical blogging and experimenting with WebGL/interactive visualizations. github+2