About Imazen

Company Profile

Imazen is the global leader in on-demand image procesing delivery and optimization software

Unlike our competitors, we have been shipping fast, reliable, and secure image processing software since 2005, and we have no investors to satisfy - just our customers.

With an open-source Rust codebase and a cloud-first design philosophy, we have the ideal solution for your developers, ops, customers, and compliance teams.

We say no to features that add unjustified security risk, reduce uptime, or increase complexity. We know what works best for our customers - from project inception to sunset, and we always study your feedback.

Our senior developers handle all technical support, which motivates software design where reliability and ease of use come first. Our R&D focused budget ensures you will get the best algorithms, the fastest response times, and (sometimes) absolutely game-changing features.

Discover real service and stability; choose Imazen

Our software is used by eBay, Microsoft, the governments of Denmark and New Zealand, and thousands of other companies, governments, and organizations in more than 45 countries.

Imazen provides architectural oversight and scalability guidance to clients with extreme growth

We work closely with clients to develop detailed deployment roadmaps, which minimize risk and maximize ROI.

We have extensive experience with scaling on-premise, Azure, AWS, Serverless, Google, and private cloud deployments. We have extensive experience with UNIX, Linux, and Windows-based networking, authentication, load balancing, caching, and web server software.

Imazen maintains relationships with a large talent pool

We work with experts from the USA, UK, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Netherlands, New Zealand, and Ukraine to deliver unparalleled expertise on projects of any size.

Imazen publishes open-source

Imazen has released dozens of open-source libraries and applications over the last 12 years, but our focus remains on server-side imaging technology such as the Imageflow and ImageResizer product lines.

We combine decades of experience in the enterprise with cutting-edge computer science

Lilith

Owner - Lilith River

Founder, Owner, Software Lead

Lilith River is the founder and owner of Imazen. She has 15 years of experience in software engineering and 9 years of experience managing globally distributed networks. She writes software in over 20 programming languages and has experience with hundreds of libraries and frameworks.

She’s the author of several dozen open-source libraries and applications and dabbles in compilers and browser development. @lilithriver

Imazen Team - Areas of expertise

  • Systems design - scaling, fault-tolerance, and high-availability
  • Security - Minimizing attack surfaces, understanding vectors and patterns, and eliminating risk
  • Image processing & rendering, using Rust and CPU intrinsics
  • Image codecs and compression technology
  • Efficient and scalable file delivery server design
  • Database and cache engine engineering
  • Compiler design, parsing, and optimization
  • Graph optimization, layout, and rendering
  • Machine learning and neural network design
  • Text indexing and search
  • Front-end development, with a focus on UX/UI
  • Website optimization, high performance media delivery

Languages we work with

  • Rust
  • Ruby
  • C#
  • C++
  • C
  • F#
  • Java
  • Python
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Powershell
  • Bash
  • (a dozen other redacted languages)

Technologies we work with

  • Rust
  • .NET Core 9.0, .NET Framework 4.8, ASP.NET 1-9
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Docker
  • Astro, Svelte, Node
  • Github Actions, Travis, AppVeyor, and other CI systems
  • Ruby, Rails, Sinatra
  • Windows, Linux, MacOS APIs
  • IIS
  • Nginx
  • Apache
  • Varnish
  • Memcached
  • Redis
  • SQL Server
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • ElasticSearch & Lucene
  • (Many dozens of other redacted frameworks, libraries, and services)