Gregory Avery-weir
Co-Founder at Future Proof Games
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolGregory Avery-weir is a seasoned software developer and co-founder with 13 years of experience building games, interactive fiction, and user-focused web applications from concept through shipping and marketing. Based in Charlotte, NC, he has shipped Unity and Flash titles that collectively exceeded two million plays and earned critical and audience recognition, while also running a blog and podcast on the theory of interactivity. His work spans front-end UX and back-end integrations—evidenced by contributions to the cabot monitoring project where he implemented recurring Google Calendar rota parsing and robust tests—plus enterprise UX development and automated build systems for financial clients. Gregory blends product-minded design with hands-on engineering, mentoring teams on web security and modern front-end stacks like AngularJS and HTML5. He actively pursues short-term contracts, freelance commissions, and collaborations that explore novel interaction models. An unusual strength is his ability to translate game-design thinking into practical, user-centric enterprise interfaces and tooling.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Graphics, Language and Literature, B.S. in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Graphics, Language and Literature at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
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531reputation
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Github Skills (17)
python10
django10
alerts9
testing9
alertview9
alertdialog9
alertifyjs9
devops8
html6
jasmine6
dependency-injection6
asp-net6
angularjs6
canvas6
json6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
arachnys/cabot
Nov 2016 - Apr 2017
Self-hosted, easily-deployable monitoring and alerts service - like a lightweight PagerDuty
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 2 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Gregory's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the cabot application's duty rota functionality. They added support for recurring Google Calendar rotas, implementing the necessary logic for parsing and integrating recurring events. Furthermore, the user wrote tests to ensure the robustness and correctness of the recurring calendar rota feature. These additions likely involved modifications to the backend code and potentially the integration with external calendar APIs.
pythondeployabledevopsdjangohosted
FutureProofGames/discourse_sso_redirect
Feb 2015 - Mar 2019
A tiny plugin to provide a whitelist for external SSO redirects.
Contributions:15 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
tinypluginwhitelistssoredirects
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