Gregory Naughton

website@naughton.org
(214) 971-6721
github.com/gmn
https://naughton.org

EDUCATION

B.S. Computer Science, New Mexico State University (2021) 3.46 GPA

EXPERIENCE

• id Software (Doom 2016) Engine programmer and Linux server programming
• Department of Energy, Kirtland Airforce base, satelite ground systems programming
• Osogato, San Francisco startup, machine-learning based music discovery engine
• Xert, Android bike computer app for improving roadbike performance
• University of Iowa, IT and web-admin. Wrote hundreds of LAMP websites

CORE PROFICIENCIES

• C Programming — 20 years
• C++ Programming — 15 years
• Linux — 20+ years
• Python3 — 5 years
• Golang — 1 year (currently learning Go)
• PHP, HTML, Javascript, Apache — 10 years

TOOLS

• Visual Studio — 15+ years
• Git, Perforce, Subversion, Mercurial, CVS
• GCC, GDB, Clang, Autotools, make, bash, shell
• Javascript, DOM, JSON, nodejs — 10 years
• MySQL, MSSQL — 10 years
• Lua — 4 years

PROGRAMMING INTERESTS

• Data Structures & Libraries, low-level design of
• APIs and Protocols
• Video Game Engines
• UNIX Operating System, the history and design of
• Filesystems: Ext4, Btrfs, implementation of
• Compiler design
• Cryptography

UNIQUE STRENGTHS

• Autodidact, always reading
• Creative original thinker. I tend to seek the structurally correct solution, rather than the accepted norm or prevailing dogma

PERSONAL PROGRAMMING PROJECTS

• libjson (c++)
• nanotts - text to speech commandline tool
• fin file indexer - index files across multiple filesystems, aggregate into a single queryable index
• spage - a drop-in pager replacement for more, less that adds automatic scrolling
• rsstool - rss feed reader (C++)
• jsQueryable, pyQueryable, QueryableC++ - single file database for storing local state
• Cyberdeck - experimental, from scratch, 3D engine

NOTABLE RECENT COURSES

• Cryptography - grade: A
• Linux System Administration - grade: A
• Compilers - grade: B+ (At the end of the course I started writing my own scripting language, based on Python, Javascript, still in early development)

NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS

• created a cryptographically sound licensing scheme for the Xert bike computer using libsodium
• invented a method to transcribe music using fourier transforms, used in a musical discovery engine, kind of like Shazam, analyzes millions of songs, stores meta-attributes, can then listen to music and tell you what song it is
• 2600 magazine article "Fun With Text To Speech", Vol 37, Number 2, summer 2020