Colin Macnaughton
Principal Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolColin Macnaughton is a Principal Software Engineer with 17 years of experience designing and delivering ultra-low-latency, high-throughput JVM systems for finance, hospitality, gaming, and healthcare. Now at NVIDIA after leading staff engineering for New Relic’s Telemetry Data Platform, he architected global streaming pipelines, a 10M req/sec edge routing tier, distributed rate limiting, and a company-wide cloud cost reduction that improved gross margins. He’s an expert in Java/J2EE/JVM, in-memory transaction processing, messaging (Kafka, JMS, AMQP), and mechanical-sympathy techniques like the LMAX Disruptor. As Head of Engineering at Neeve Research he built a Java-based in-memory platform that delivers microsecond latencies without external databases, showing deep systems-level and product-facing instincts. Colin blends hands-on implementation with staff engineering leadership and incident command experience, and is based in Portland, Oregon. A long career spanning Progress, New Relic, and startups gives him rare depth in both open-protocol messaging and large-scale telemetry architectures.
16 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Engineer Computer Science Computer Engineer Electrical Engineering Physics, BS Computer Engineer Computer Science Computer Engineer Electrical Engineering Physics at Tufts University
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Github Skills (38)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
neeveresearch/nvx-app-hornet-tick-to-trade
Jan 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:2 releases, 2 PRs, 66 pushes in 1 year 7 months
hornetemslatencytradinglow-latency
neeveresearch/nvx-samples
Sep 2017 - Jun 2019
X Platform Samples
Contributions:22 releases, 83 commits, 17 PRs in 1 year 9 months
frpplatform-samples
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