Allen Winter
Software Engineer at KDAB
Wallace, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAllen Winter is a seasoned software engineer with 22 years of experience specializing in Qt development and a Nokia Certified Qt Developer working remotely from Wallace, NC. With a long tenure at KDAB and earlier leadership in KDE project coordination, he excels at refactoring, build-system modernization, and UI/UX maintenance across major open-source Qt projects like GammaRay and Krita. His background in high-performance computing and cryptologic mathematics at the DoD informs a methodical approach to performance engineering, license compliance, and large codebase upkeep. Comfortable across C/C++, Fortran and scripting, he blends deep low-level expertise with front-end Qt polish and sustained open-source stewardship.
22 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Mathematics, BS, Mathematics at University of Maryland
Github Skills (15)
linux10
qt-framework10
refactoring10
cmake10
cpp10
performance-analysis10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
qt10
refactor10
profiling10
code-formatting10
build-system9
user-interface9
k8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
KDAB/GammaRay
Oct 2010 - Jan 2023
GammaRay is a tool to poke around in a Qt-application and also to manipulate the application to some extent.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:22 releases, 22 reviews, 1076 commits in 12 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Allen's contributions focused on refactoring the codebase to remove dependencies on KDE4 and integrate support for Qt4. They made build system adjustments to exclude KDE4 includes and libraries, adding local copies of KDEUI headers to support the transition. They also performed code maintenance tasks such as cleaning up includes and ensuring the proper use of MOC files.
qt-applicationkdabqt
KDAB/KDDockWidgets
Apr 2019 - Jan 2023
KDAB's Dock Widget Framework for Qt
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 469 commits, 47 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Allen's commits primarily focused on updating copyright years and standardizing code formatting. This work involved running `dos2unix` on multiple source files, indicating a focus on code cleanup and consistency. The changes also included modifications to the source code, specifically involving updates to various header files such as TitleBar.cpp and MainWindow.cpp, suggesting a role related to User interface and code maintainence within the Qt Framework.
qt
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