Neale Ferguson
Founder Creatve Partner NOMADIC
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNeale Ferguson is a founder and creative partner based in Los Angeles with 20 years’ experience bridging high-end film production, global brand collaborations, and hands-on technical contributions to open-source runtimes. He leads NOMADIC and previously ran Notorious Los Angeles, producing internationally recognized automotive commercials and managing a global roster of directors. Unusually for a creative executive, Neale also contributes low-level performance and architecture work to projects like .NET, Mono and NuttX, focusing on s390x optimizations, SIMD support and embedded math/system fixes. His background in media communication from Rhodes University and decades in film production inform a rare blend of storytelling sensibility and systems-level problem solving. A committed conservationist and member of Olifants River Game Reserve, he combines commercial savvy with philanthropic anti-poaching support. Fluent across US, Japan, Thailand and South Africa markets, he excels at negotiating celebrity endorsements and catalyzing brand-to-brand partnerships.
20 years of coding experience
Matriculation, Matriculation at Jeppe High School for Boys, Johannesburg, South AfricaBachelor's degree, Communication and Media Studies, Bachelor's degree, Communication and Media Studies at Rhodes University
Github Skills (30)
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microcontroller10
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asp-net10
code-generation10
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
mono/mono
Jan 2011 - Oct 2022
Mono open source ECMA CLI, C# and .NET implementation.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 reviews, 160 commits, 54 PRs in 11 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Neale's contributions primarily involve enhancements and bug fixes related to the Mono runtime's s390x architecture, especially concerning the JIT compiler and related infrastructure. They focused on implementing core architectural support, including initial SIMD support, fixing issues with exception handling, thread interruption and thread priority, and improvements to memory barriers. Their work directly impacts the stability and performance of the Mono runtime on s390x systems.
dotnetjitruntimemonoandroid
dotnet/runtime
Jan 2011 - Oct 2022
.NET is a cross-platform runtime for cloud, mobile, desktop, and IoT apps.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 reviews, 119 commits, 16 PRs in 11 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Neale's contributions primarily involve low-level optimizations and bug fixes for the .NET runtime, specifically focusing on the s390x architecture. Their work includes implementing SIMD optimizations, addressing endianness issues in data processing, and resolving build failures. The user also made changes to the mini-s390x code, including performance improvements and bug fixes. The focus is on improving the runtime's performance and stability on the s390x platform.
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