Alberto Mardegan
Senior Software Engineer at Self-employed
Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Russia
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Top SchoolAlberto Mardegan is a Senior Software Engineer with 26 years of experience building robust Linux and cross-platform software, specializing in C, C++, Python and Qt-based UIs. He has led architecture and implementation for embedded and desktop platforms—driving middleware and security improvements at Luxoft and Nokia and shipping Ubuntu Online Accounts at Canonical. A pragmatic open-source contributor, he’s modernized GUIs (GTK→Qt migration in Subsurface) and contributed bug fixes and features to core Qt modules and snapd. Comfortable across kernel, IPC, D-Bus, and build systems, he combines low-level systems expertise with thoughtful UI design and a penchant for elegant, simple solutions. Based in Saint Petersburg and working remotely, he maintains several personal cross-platform projects (Imaginario, Mappero) and unusually enjoys refining software as a hobby—often while cooking hot chocolate.
26 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Università degli Studi di Padova
English, Italian, interlingua (international auxiliary language association), Russian, Finnish, French, Bulgarian
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Github Skills (30)
c-language10
qt10
gui-programming10
command-line-interface10
ui-design10
uid10
go10
front-end-development10
command-line10
qml10
cprogramming-language10
cli10
testing9
multiplatform9
javascript9
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
canonical/snapd
Feb 2017 - Dec 2022
The snapd and snap tools enable systems to work with .snap files.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2154 reviews, 453 commits, 219 PRs in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Alberto primarily worked on bug fixes and code improvements within the `cmd/snap` directory, focusing on addressing linter errors. Their contributions included modifications to various command-line interface (CLI) commands, such as `snap`, `snap-bootstrap` and `snap-repair`, suggesting involvement in the core functionalities of the `snapd` project. Furthermore, they made several improvements to different modules and unit tests.
snapdsnap
qt/qtdeclarative
Dec 2012 - Mar 2019
Qt Declarative (Quick 2)
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:13 commits in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Alberto primarily contributed to the Qt Declarative (Quick 2) repository, focusing on improvements and bug fixes within the QML framework. Their work involved modifying the QQmlPropertyCache, addressing issues with dynamic properties and method handling. They also implemented fixes related to drag-and-drop functionality, including image source handling, and array manipulation in JavaScript. Additionally, the user worked on the QQuickListView and QQuickGridView components.
qt
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