Andras Mantia
Senior Software Engineer at KDE
Romania
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Top SchoolAndras Mantia is a Senior Software Engineer with 24 years of experience specializing in Qt, C++ and 3D/OpenGL development, currently at KDAB where he combines hands-on engineering, project management and official Qt training. He has been an active KDE contributor since 2001, notably improving the Plasma Desktop Folder View with multi-screen awareness, drag-and-drop robustness, and per-desktop sharing—work that touches a widely used open-source desktop environment. His background includes telecom software for 3G radio network systems at Ericsson, giving him experience in large-scale, performance-sensitive systems. Practical and detail-oriented, he focuses on reliable, maintainable architecture and has a knack for subtle UX improvements that reduce edge-case bugs. Based in Romania, he holds a Computer Science degree from Babeș-Bolyai University and blends long-term open-source stewardship with commercial consulting expertise.
24 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai din Cluj-Napoca
Hungarian, Romanian, English
Github Skills (9)
qml10
plasmoid10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
qt10
kde-plasma10
desktop-application10
enviroment10
configuration-management9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
KDE/plasma-desktop
Nov 2017 - Dec 2018
Plasma for the Desktop
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:19 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Andras primarily focused on enhancing the Plasma Desktop environment, specifically the Folder View component. Their contributions include implementing multi-screen awareness for folder views, addressing issues with item positioning during drag-and-drop operations, and improving the behavior of newly created items. Furthermore, they made significant changes to the ScreenMapper class, optimizing how screen mapping data is stored and managed within the configuration, ensuring consistency and reliability across the desktop environment. The user also added the functionality to share folderview content per desktop.
electronlinuxc-plus-pluschromeosdesktop
KDE/kfilereplace
Jul 2003 - Sep 2006
Contributions:93 commits in 3 years 2 months
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