Greg Newman
Software Engineer at Gregory Newman Studios
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGreg Newman is a seasoned Django/Python full-stack engineer with over 17 years of freelance experience and a strong reputation in the Django community. He combines backend expertise (Django REST Framework, Celery, PostgreSQL/MySQL) with practical frontend skills (ES6, HTML5/CSS3, React/Redux) and modern deployment tooling like Docker and AWS. Currently engineering at NANOG while running Carbon8 Studios and maintaining a parallel career as a working artist, he brings a designer’s eye to UX and product-focused code. His open-source contributions include adding Stripe webhook plan-syncing and middleware updates to Pinax’s payments app, demonstrating attention to reliable integrations and testing. Clients across healthcare, education, and finance rely on him to turn complex requirements into maintainable systems. Based in Charlotte, NC, he blends creative insight with pragmatic engineering to ship dependable web applications.
11 years of coding experience
Illustration, Illustration at Catonsville Community College
Github Skills (8)
python10
stripe10
payment10
django10
webhooks10
testing10
apidoc9
api9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pinax/pinax-stripe-light
Jun 2017 - Sep 2017
a payments Django app for Stripe
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 7 PRs, 1 push in 2 months
Contributions summary:Greg contributed to the implementation of webhook functionalities within the Django application, specifically for Stripe plan management. They added webhooks for plan creation and updates, along with associated tests and methods for synchronizing plans. Additional contributions include updating the application to handle Django 1.10 middleware and caching of customer data. Further changes included minor improvements such as removing unused imports and making event fields nullable.
django-appspaymentsstripepythondjango
gregnewman/gmacs
Oct 2018 - Nov 2022
My emacs configuration for org-mode, python, javascript and react development.
Contributions:321 commits, 2 PRs, 427 pushes in 4 years 1 month
emacsemacs-configlsp-modepython
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