Brian Ashworth
Developer at Retrieve Technologies, Inc.
Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Ashworth is a developer with 11 years of hands-on experience building and hardening low-level systems, currently working at Retrieve Technologies in Nashua, NH. He contributes to prominent Wayland projects—Sway, swaylock, and wlroots—where his work ranges from adding user-facing customization and IPC features to fixing graphics, EGL, and output-management bugs. Comfortable across back-end and full-stack C code, he has improved compositor stability, reduced redundant protocol traffic, and added configuration parsing that makes tools like swaylock more flexible. His background includes IT and helpdesk roles, scripting and imaging automation, and web tooling from ASP.NET to Sass, giving him a practical ops-to-dev perspective. Notably, he blends production troubleshooting with feature-level improvements in widely used open-source display stack components.
11 years of coding experience
Computer Networking, Computer Networking at Nashua Community CollegeComputer Science, Computer Science at University of PittsburghHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Nashua High School North
Github Skills (22)
transit-gateway10
eway10
payment-gateway10
c1110
axway10
c1710
window-management10
wayland10
drm9
command-line-interface9
ipc9
file-parsing9
ws9
configuration-management9
command-line9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
swaywm/sway
Mar 2018 - Nov 2020
i3-compatible Wayland compositor
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 reviews, 545 commits, 526 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Brian contributed to the i3-compatible Wayland compositor, Sway. Their work involved fixing bugs related to workspace and title name generation, particularly when dealing with non-empty workspaces. The user also implemented support for the `hide_edge_borders` configuration and added a command for setting the title alignment. Furthermore, the user introduced the `swap` command to swap container positions and contributed to the IPC functionalities, mainly adding a command for subscribing to events and adding a command for a new event.
compositorwaylandwayland-compositor
swaywm/swaylock
Jul 2018 - Apr 2019
Screen locker for Wayland
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 5 PRs, 3 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Brian contributed to the customization and configuration options for swaylock. They implemented new command-line flags for color customization, indicator adjustments, and font selection within the main.c file. Furthermore, they integrated a configuration file parsing feature, allowing users to define settings through a dedicated configuration file. These changes enhanced the usability and flexibility of swaylock by providing more customization options.
swaywaylandscreen-lockerlockerwlroots
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