David Naylor
Business Consultant at Self-employed
Wrightwood, California, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Naylor is a multidisciplinary business consultant and retired technologist with 14 years of professional experience, currently incubating projects in renewable energy, desert land stewardship, and digital publishing focused on bioinformatics and soil health. His career bridges academia, entrepreneurship, and enterprise IT—spanning roles from associate professor and CEO to principal architect and product manager for search at Grid Dynamics. Trained in physics (Oxford BA) and electrical engineering (USC PhD), he brings deep technical rigor in optics, integrated optics, and industrial automation alongside practical experience in e-commerce, linguistics-driven product search, and API-driven industrial control. He now applies that systems-level thinking to environmental and biochemical problems, exploring molecular and microbial processes that underpin healthy soils and sustainable land management. Based in Wrightwood, California, he also pursues a longstanding, off-hours fascination with Southern California tectonics, reflecting a curiosity that drives his cross-domain project work.
14 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Electrical Engineering, PhD, Electrical Engineering at University of Southern CaliforniaBA, Physics, BA, Physics at University of Oxford
Github Skills (37)
dbus10
internet10
protocols10
journal9
bus9
notification-center9
slack9
system-information9
database9
ospf9
expressive9
socket9
activation9
network-automation9
pagerduty9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dtnaylor/https-dashboard
Aug 2014 - Mar 2016
Contributions:114 commits in 1 year 7 months
dtnaylor/web-profiler
Jul 2014 - Jan 2017
Contributions:125 commits, 46 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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