Lilith River
Broomfield, Colorado, United States
Summary
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RockstarLilith River is a seasoned software engineer and full-time OSS solopreneur with 24 years of coding experience and 16 years in professional roles, who runs Imazen.io producing 100% open-source developer tools. She’s fluent across Ruby, C#, C, C++, Rust, and JavaScript and is best known for low-latency, correct image processing through projects like Imageflow and ImageResizer that speed up sites for startups and Fortune 100s. Lilith combines hands-on backend and DevOps work—improving builds, OpenSSL configs and cross-platform tooling—with QA-focused contributions to high-profile projects like Rust’s cargo test suite. She helps companies open-source projects and build communities, offers contract support for OSS, and has a knack for refactoring legacy tooling (e.g., removing UI deps from Eclipse Sharpen) to modern, testable code. Based in Broomfield, Colorado, she runs a company that intentionally keeps its work fully open-source, turning production-grade engineering into reusable developer platforms.
16 years of coding experience
English, Italian
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Github Skills (33)
dependency-management10
cargo10
testing10
eclipse-plugin10
java10
javas10
build-automation10
dotnet-core10
version-control10
package-manager10
rust10
csharp10
image9
image-processing9
command-line-interface9
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
imazen/imageflow
Nov 2014 - Dec 2022
High-performance image manipulation for web servers. Includes imageflow_server, imageflow_tool, and libimageflow
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:136 releases, 17 reviews, 1998 commits in 8 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Lilith primarily worked on improving the build process and dependencies, as indicated by their commits. They addressed issues related to OpenSSL configuration, and also made changes to the build scripts to support target-specific builds and manage dependencies within the project. Their work also included refactoring some of the command-line tool's functionality.
manipulationimageimage-manipulationimage-serverperformance
mono/sharpen
Dec 2014 - Apr 2015
Sharpen is an Eclipse plugin created by db4o that allows you to convert your Java project into c#
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:63 commits, 3 PRs, 2 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Lilith primarily refactored and updated the Sharpen plugin, focusing on removing dependencies on Eclipse UI components. They modified core classes like `ConversionBatch`, `JavaProjectCmd`, and `SharpenApplication` to refactor code and remove Eclipse UI dependencies. Additionally, the user updated several test cases to be compatible with JUnit 4 and the new APIs. They also added support for block comments and corrected output formatting and imports.
sharpendb4oeclipse-pluginjava-projecteclipse
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