Riley Lahd
Web Developer at Absorb Software
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRiley Lahd is a Calgary-based web developer with a decade of experience building and securing production web applications across telco and enterprise environments. He has led full-stack and DevOps efforts at Shaw and Rogers—owning customer-facing portals used by thousands daily—and more recently focused on DevSecOps practices and inventory tooling to replace vulnerable vendor solutions. Riley combines practical React/Node.js/UNIX/Docker/Kubernetes expertise with a growing academic specialization in Information Security and Privacy at the University of Calgary. An active open-source contributor, he’s implemented nuanced GIF disposal fixes and tests in the widely used Pillow imaging library, reflecting attention to edge cases and reliable tooling. Colleagues know him for bridging hands-on implementation with security-minded design and for turning messy legacy workflows into maintainable systems.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Information Security and Privacy, Master's degree, Information Security and Privacy at University of Calgary
English
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Github Skills (7)
python10
gif10
image-processing10
java6
cross-platform4
c173
c113
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
python-pillow/Pillow
Mar 2019 - Apr 2019
Python Imaging Library (Fork)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 1 PR, 13 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Riley primarily contributed to the `GifImagePlugin.py` module, focusing on improvements related to GIF image handling, specifically disposal mode 2. Their commits address delta frame generation, ensuring the correct behavior of frame disposal, particularly when dealing with disposal mode 2 GIFs. These changes included code for creating background images, handling palette information, and fixing line lengths and indents. Additionally, the user added tests to validate the disposal mode 2 implementation.
imagepythonimagingpython-3image-processing
sircinnamon/pycraftlogs
Apr 2017 - Jul 2019
Contributions:10 PRs, 39 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 3 months
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