Eric Mcconville
Lead Software Engineer at Tribune Digital
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolEric Mcconville is a Lead Software Engineer in Chicago with 14 years building scalable web applications, system architecture, and content delivery for media and enterprise clients. He has progressed from freelance PHP development to leading engineering teams at Tribune and Academic Approach, blending hands-on coding with resource management and technical leadership. His open-source contributions include extending the ctypes-based Python ImageMagick binding "wand" with new drawing primitives and memory-safe refactors, reflecting a low-level, pragmatic approach to tooling. Comfortable in both backend systems and large-scale geocentric applications, he brings a proven track record of shipping reliable, production-grade software while mentoring teams and coordinating cross-functional delivery.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Sinclair Community College
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (25)
c-language10
python10
image-processing10
capi10
c1110
c1710
command-line-utility10
image-manipulation10
command-line-tool10
imagemagick10
cprogramming-language10
image9
patch9
svn9
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
emcconville/wand
Sep 2014 - Jan 2023
The ctypes-based simple ImageMagick binding for Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 releases, 3 reviews, 839 commits in 8 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily worked on adding new drawing methods to the `wand` Python library, which provides a ctypes-based interface to ImageMagick. Their contributions included implementing methods for drawing shapes like arcs, circles, ellipses, and points, as well as introducing a `fill_rule` property for complex shapes. The user also refactored the code for memory deallocation, adding methods related to text styling, and implemented methods for drawing and manipulating images using the C-API.
pythonctypessiftimage-processingimagemagick
emcconville/point-reduction-algorithms
Jan 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:2 releases, 56 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 2 months
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