Gus Naughton
Principal Software Engineer at Alaska Airlines
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolGus Naughton is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and shipping customer-focused systems, currently leading multi-year future-facing projects at Alaska Airlines from ideation through production. He builds high-velocity innovation environments that let cross-functional teams rapidly prototype, fail fast, and scale successful ideas, and has driven measurable business impact including a $90M+ revenue uplift from booking-flow optimizations. Technically versatile, he’s shipped front-end Web Components (LitElement, SvelteKit), Go microservices, Kubernetes deployments, and C# back-ends while seeding new platform capabilities like electronic bag tags and an enterprise A/B testing platform. A pragmatic mentor and product-minded engineer, he’s also contributed to Alaska’s Auro design system and helped productionize the airline’s first AKS cluster—bringing both hands-on coding and systems-level operational rigor. Unusually for an engineering lead, he describes himself as a “data plumber,” reflecting a practical focus on getting reliable data and decisioning into production to drive outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of WashingtonPocono Mountain East High SchoolComputer Science, Computer Science at Clarkson University
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Github Skills (153)
computer-architecture10
databases10
security10
custom-element10
computational-biology10
web-development10
javascript10
robotics10
quantum-computing10
computer-vision10
reinforcement-learning10
android10
react-native10
toggle10
expo10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
momentum-mod/leaderboards
Dec 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:20 PRs, 43 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
modmomentum
momentum-mod/frontend
May 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:7 PRs, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
end-useruser-informationcssjavascriptfront-end
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