Rick Leir
Application Analyst And Toolsmith
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRick Leir is an experienced application analyst and toolsmith with over a decade building reliable search and distributed systems, specializing in Apache Solr/Fusion integrations and responsive Angular front-ends. He has delivered production search engines indexing millions of documents, developed OCR server farms, and automated cloud and virtualization deployments to improve system reliability and failover. At Lockheed Martin he pairs Windchill administration with Python tooling to automate project management, and his contributions to open-source front-ends (e.g., fixes in the widely used Nextstrain Auspice visualizer) show attention to UI detail. Comfortable across Perl, Python, C++ and DevOps tooling, he blends systems-level thinking with pragmatic automation to keep complex services running 24x7. Based in Ottawa, he combines academic electronics/sciences training with a long history of hands-on engineering from embedded firmware to modern web apps.
11 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Algonquin CollegeSciences, Sciences at York University
Github Skills (5)
javascript10
front-end-development10
react10
ui-components10
css9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
nextstrain/auspice
Apr 2020 - Sep 2020
Web app for visualizing pathogen evolution
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 13 PRs, 44 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Rick primarily focused on front-end development within the Auspice repository. Their contributions centered around fixing UI issues, improving code formatting, and correcting typos in the user interface components. The user also corrected and adjusted code and syntax within the React components, particularly involving the `ReactPageScroller.js` file. They made adjustments to styling elements, such as padding, and corrected a CSS color definition.
pathogenreactevolutionvisualizingvisualization
rleir/auspice
Apr 2020 - Dec 2020
Web app for visualizing pathogen evolution
Contributions:22 PRs, 29 pushes, 15 branches in 8 months
pathogenreactevolutionvisualizingvisualization
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