David Riding
Full-stack engineer: greenfield to production
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Built a full-stack streaming platform used by major studios
I built and operated a full-stack streaming platform end-to-end: real-time ingest, playback, admin tooling, and production operations. It supported high-profile media workflows for major entertainment studios with strict reliability expectations.
Highlights:
multi-tenant architecture + secure access controls
automated deployments, monitoring, incident response
scaling real-time video workloads in production
If you need a production-grade streaming or real-time platform built from scratch, I’m available.
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Open-source: Talos — secure Rust licensing (client + server)
I’m wrapping up Talos, an open-source Rust licensing framework that provides a secure “gatekeeper” for software: hardware-bound licensing, encrypted local license storage, activation/validation, and heartbeat-based liveness checks.
What’s included:
async client library + lightweight Axum server
AES-256-GCM encrypted license storage
SHA-256 hardware fingerprinting
SQLite/Postgres support, self-hostable
feature flags for admin API, JWT auth, rate limiting, jobs
Repo: https://github.com/dmriding/talos
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Building Keryx — high-performance file transfer (S3 + P2P)
I’m finishing Keryx, a high-performance file transfer platform built in Rust. It supports both S3-compatible storage and encrypted peer-to-peer transfers, with ML-driven tuning that adapts to real network conditions for consistently fast throughput.
Highlights:
S3 multipart + resumable transfers
P2P with NAT traversal + relay fallback
end-to-end encryption (Noise XX) + BLAKE3 verification
ML optimization for chunking + routing (direct vs relay)
Project page: https://netviper.gr/keryx/
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