Namon Freeman
Manager - Housing And Sustainability at CultureBanx
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNamon Freeman is a housing and sustainability leader with 14 years of experience helping municipal governments shape pragmatic, market-informed housing policy across urban, suburban, and peri-urban contexts. As Manager at Bloomberg Associates and a former city planner and plans examiner, he designs inclusive, implementable programs that improve affordability while bolstering community resilience and conservation. He brings a rare technical fluency—evident from open-source contributions to projects like the high-throughput Zilliqa blockchain and an intermediate Linux exploitation course—that sharpens his systems thinking and problem-solving. A dual-trained architect and urban planner (Hampton University; NYU Wagner), he pairs design sensibility with policy rigor and regularly advises community land trusts and nonprofits on program delivery. Outside work he channels curiosity into wandering new cities, surfing, and volunteering to support the Black community, reflecting a lived commitment to vibrant, equitable places.
15 years of coding experience
Study Abroad: Barcelona, Spain, Study Abroad: Barcelona, Spain at IES AbroadDouble Major: Master of Architecture (M.Arch) & Bachelor of Arts in Spanish (B.A.), Double Major: Master of Architecture (M.Arch) & Bachelor of Arts in Spanish (B.A.) at Hampton UniversityMaster of Urban Planning, Master of Urban Planning at NYU Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
Spanish, English
Github Skills (24)
c-language10
python10
vulnerability10
security10
exploit10
exp10
security-vulnerability10
zig10
linux-shell10
computer-engineering10
pwntools10
blockchain10
vulnerabilities10
reverse-engineering10
cprogramming-language10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
nnamon/linux-exploitation-course
Jan 2017 - Aug 2020
A Course on Intermediate Level Linux Exploitation
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:34 commits, 2 PRs, 30 pushes in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Namon contributed to a course on Linux exploitation, focusing on intermediate-level techniques. Their commits covered various stages of exploitation, including buffer overflows, format string vulnerabilities, and return-oriented programming. The user created and updated scripts and code samples demonstrating techniques like bypassing NX, ret2libc, and utilizing GOT overwrite, contributing heavily to a practical understanding of exploitation principles.
linux
Zilliqa/zq1
Feb 2019 - May 2019
Zilliqa is the world's first high-throughput public blockchain platform - designed to scale to thousands of transactions per second.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:36 commits, 5 PRs, 42 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Namon contributed to the Zilliqa blockchain project by fixing argument processing in the main application's core logic, addressing compilation errors to ensure compatibility with GCC 8, and implementing the Directory Service (DS) Reputation system. They also updated and refactored codebase related to DS composition, with updates focusing on nodes reordering and management. The user's changes involved code modifications in core C++ files for the blockchain's core functionalities, indicating a focus on the project's back-end development and functionality.
blockchain-platformzilliqa
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