Richard Cantu
Owner at Hecate llc
Virginia, United States
Summary
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RockstarRichard Cantu is an experienced infrastructure engineer and owner with 11 years in technology and operations, currently based in Virginia. He brings hands-on expertise in performance-sensitive systems from a background working on YouTube's CDN and contributes meaningful open-source optimizations—notably improving image-blur performance and cross-platform builds in the popular i3lock-color project. As a Wayland advocate and ergonomic keyboard aficionado, he blends low-level systems tuning with practical usability concerns. Richard is also running real-estate and development projects through Hecate LLC, demonstrating entrepreneurial resilience and a willingness to engage investors to complete local property redevelopments.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (10)
c1710
linux10
c-programming10
c1110
sse10
c999
autotools7
bsd7
javascript6
linked-list6
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
Raymo111/i3lock-color
Dec 2017 - Mar 2020
The world's most popular non-default computer lockscreen.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 78 commits, 56 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Richard's commits primarily focused on modifying and optimizing the image blurring functionality within the i3lock-color project. They addressed issues with SSE version checks, reverted to better blurring behaviors, and fixed compiling issues for 32-bit machines and machines without SSE2. Furthermore, the user refactored and improved the image-blurring logic, and incorporated performance optimizations.
lockscreenci3lockautotoolsi3
PandorasFox/unfuck-twitter
May 2021 - Jan 2024
remove twitter share trackers from urls
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 2 PRs in 2 years 8 months
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