Built by practitioners, not account managers.

Austin McDaniel spent over a decade building security products from the inside — as an engineer at Google, Mastercard, RSA, and the Department of Defense, then as a founding engineer at Swimlane, a software architect at Sevco Security and Sumo Logic, and co-founder of CRFT, later acquired by Flashpoint. He holds four cybersecurity patents. By 2022, after watching security companies consistently struggle to find design and engineering partners who actually understood the domain, he launched GoodCode to solve the problem directly.

The idea was simple: build an agency staffed by people who've shipped security products, not people learning what a SOC analyst does from a requirements doc. From the start, GoodCode worked exclusively with cybersecurity and enterprise technology companies — building products for threat intelligence platforms, SOAR tools, attack surface management, XDR, and identity security. The specialization wasn't a marketing angle. It was the whole point.

Two years in, Carrington McDaniel joined as COO to build out the operational side of the business — sprint delivery, team growth, client relationships, and the business infrastructure that lets the design and engineering team focus on craft. As brothers, Austin and Carrington bring a level of trust and directness to the leadership that's hard to manufacture. No politics, no bureaucracy — just a shared standard for the work.

Today GoodCode is a senior team of designers and engineers who've collectively shipped over 70 security products. We run on focused sprints, we maintain a portfolio of open source libraries used by thousands of developers, and we've been recognized by Cyber Defense Magazine as one of the most innovative cybersecurity engineering solutions in the industry. We're small by design — because the companies we work with don't need a 200-person agency. They need a team that's already fluent in their world.