Bruce Macnaughton
Retired
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBruce Macnaughton is a seasoned software engineer and strategist with over a decade of hands-on development experience and a multi-decade career shaping systems software, SaaS, and data center technologies. He has led product and operational efforts at companies from Microsoft and CompuServe to SolarWinds and Contrast Security, blending low-level systems insight with user-focused service design. An active contributor to open-source tooling—most notably enhancements to mapbox/node-pre-gyp for reliable binary deployment—he cares deeply about maintainable, extensible frameworks and robust deployment workflows. Bruce also brings investor and board-level experience in data-center and infrastructure companies, giving him a unique perspective on technology, market fit, and operability. Now retired in San Francisco, he’s returned to software design and development for the joy of building tools that make a difference, while balancing life with cooking, gardening and travel.
12 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
BFA Broadcast-Film Arts, BFA Broadcast-Film Arts at Southern Methodist University
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Github Skills (17)
javascript10
amazon-s310
build-automation10
aws-s310
nodejs10
s3-bucket10
git9
canvas9
aws9
cicd8
vuejs26
git-fetch6
nodejs-addon6
transformation6
paperjs6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
mapbox/node-pre-gyp
Jan 2021 - May 2021
Node.js tool for easy binary deployment of C++ addons
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:28 reviews, 58 commits, 28 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Bruce primarily focused on enhancing the node-pre-gyp tool, specifically adding functionality for staging and production environments, likely related to binary deployment. Their commits reveal modifications to core files like `lib/node-pre-gyp.js`, `lib/publish.js`, and related utility scripts, demonstrating an understanding of the build and deployment process. Furthermore, changes included fixing tests and ensuring proper functionality within the project's workflow. This involved updating s3 host settings and adjusting the publish process.
cppnodejspriority
solarwinds/appoptics-apm-node
Sep 2017 - Apr 2021
AppOptics APM Instrumentation Agent for Node.js
Contributions:49 releases, 48 reviews, 1790 commits in 3 years 7 months
nodejsapm-instrumentation
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