Nick Gravgaard, creative software developer

I enjoy imagining innovative solutions to interesting problems and then implementing them, both at work and in the projects I have undertaken independently (including an algorithm which is now used by Google - please see the softography section below). I am a software developer with over 10 years of commercial experience who is seeking a mid to senior level development position that will allow me to continue to develop my programming skills. I have worked on a wide range of different projects, from web sites to back-end systems to application software to games. The languages I know best are C, C++, C# and Python, and at the moment I am looking for C# work.

Name	Nick Gravgaard
Email
URL	http://nickgravgaard.com

Category	Skill	Experience
Operating systems	Windows	1991 - Present
	Linux (SUSE, Red Hat, Slackware, Ubuntu)	1998 - Present
	Mac OS X	2006 - 2007
Programming languages	C	2000 - 2008
	C++	2002 - 2004, 2009
	C#	2010 - Present
	Python	2006 - Present
	Java	2006, 2009
	JavaScript	1999 - 2006, 2009 - 2010
	Perl	2004
	SQL	1999 - 2000, 2004 - 2006, 2009 - Present
Libraries, APIs, frameworks	Microsoft .NET	2010 - Present
	Visual Studio Extensibility (VSX)	2010 - Present
	C++ STL	2002 - 2004, 2009
	Qt, PyQt	2009 - Present
	GTK+, PyGTK	2008 - 2009
	Python Imaging Library (PIL)	2006 - 2010
	Django	2009 - Present
	jQuery	2009 - 2010
	MFC, Win32	2000 - 2004
	OpenTV	2006 - 2008
	Java Swing	2006, 2009
	Xlib (X Window System)	2000 - 2006
	Component Object Model (COM)	2000 - 2002
Compilers	GNU C / C++ Compilers (gcc, g++)	2000 - 2008
Compilers	Visual C++	2000 - 2004, 2009
Editors, IDEs	Visual Studio	2000 - 2004, 2009 - Present
	Eclipse	2006, 2009
	vi / Vim	2006 - 2008
Version control and SCM	Git	2009 - Present
	Subversion (SVN)	2004 - 2006, 2009
	CVS	2003 - 2004, 2006 - 2008
	Visual SourceSafe	2000 - 2002
	ClearQuest	2000 - 2002
Build systems	Makefiles	2006 - 2008
	CMake	2009
	Ant	2009
Object-oriented analysis and design	UML	2000 - 2004
	Design Patterns	2002 - 2004
	Together	2003 - 2004
	Rational Rose	2000 - 2002
Software development methodologies	Agile	2006 - Present
Software development methodologies	Scrum	2006 - 2008
Databases	MySQL	2009 - Present
	CouchDB	2009 - 2010
	SQLite	2009
	Oracle	2004 - 2006
	SQL Server	1999 - 2000
Document authoring	HTML / XHTML	1999 - 2000, 2004 - 2006, 2009 - Present
	CSS	2004 - 2006, 2009
	XML	2000 - 2002, 2009
	XSLT	2000 - 2002, 2009

Invented the elastic tabstops mechanism for handling tab characters in text files. Implementations have been developed using GTK+ in C and Python, and with Java Swing. The algorithm has subsequently been adopted by Google's Go programming language for formatting code
Developed the WindowLab open source window manager for the X Window System on Linux/Unix using Xlib and C
Coded numerous games (in C, M68k assembly and Blitz Basic) for the Amiga range of computers which made use of the platform's unique video hardware to do some interesting visual effects (techniques used the copper, blitter, sprites, dual playfields, planar and "chunky" graphics). One of these, BombBloke (from 1993-1996) is available as a zip file or as an adf file. There are screenshots here, here and here
Playtested the commercial games "Worms" (1995) and "Worms - The Director's Cut" (1997) - see screenshots here and here

A complete version of this CV with employment history and qualifications is available upon request. References are also available.
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