Richard Stanway
Software Engineer at TeamLiquid
The Netherlands, United States
Summary
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RockstarRichard Stanway is a seasoned software engineer with 21 years of experience specializing in back-end and systems development, particularly for live streaming and capture technologies. Based in the Netherlands, he has been a key system admin and developer for notable open-source projects like OBS Studio and its DirectShow capture library, focusing on stability, memory management, and crash fixes in multi-threaded environments. His contributions to OBS include improving RTMP output handling and installer robustness, demonstrating a blend of low-level C++ skills and pragmatic user-facing improvements. Richard’s work on deprecated OBS and libdshowcapture shows a consistent attention to error handling, performance optimizations, and maintainability. He combines deep systems expertise with a pragmatic streak—often preventing subtle race conditions and installer failures that would otherwise impact large streaming communities.
21 years of coding experience
Github Skills (18)
debug10
c-language10
multithreading10
directshow10
c1110
c1710
error-handling10
cprogramming-language10
code-optimization9
video-encoding9
windows9
build-automation9
computer-engineering9
video-streaming9
memory-management8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
jp9000/OBS
Sep 2012 - Apr 2016
Open Broadcaster Software (Deprecated: See OBS Studio repository instead)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:457 commits, 28 PRs, 45 pushes in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Richard's contributions focused on fixing various bugs within the deprecated Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) project. These fixes addressed issues related to capture drivers, settings notifications, crashes during streaming/editing, and plugin loading, suggesting involvement with the core functionality and stability of the application. Specific changes were made to video processing, encoding, and DirectShow components of the program.
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obsproject/obs-studio
May 2015 - Jan 2023
OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording
Role in this project:Back-end & System Engineer
Back-end & System EngineerContributions:213 reviews, 418 commits, 152 PRs in 7 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Richard primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the stability and functionality of the OBS Studio software. Their contributions included addressing race conditions in multi-threaded processes, memory management issues, and other potential causes of instability. Additionally, they made improvements to the handling of the output (such as the RTMP output) and also the installer (such as adding a mechanism to handle the installation process for users).
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