Andrew Exter
Senior Software Engineer, Cofounder at Qinetic Pty Ltd
Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Exter is a senior software engineer and cofounder with 13 years of experience specializing in Qt, QML and embedded Linux, with a deep background in cross-platform C++ application frameworks. He led performance, memory and feature improvements for QtQuick text and model-view components at Nokia and continues to consult and contribute to Qt Quick optimization through his company Qinetic. Known for pragmatic API and tooling design, Andrew has implemented multimedia backends, drag-and-drop APIs and document/gallery systems across mobile platforms and desktop, and has a history of mentoring and driving code quality through reviews and tests. An active contributor to the widely used Qt Declarative (qtdeclarative) project, he focuses on UI polish—text input, mouse interactions and test coverage—to improve real-world user experience. Based in Brisbane, he combines hands-on implementation with product-level thinking and an ability to rapidly assimilate constraints to deliver the right solution.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology, Software Engineering, Bachelor of Information Technology, Software Engineering at Queensland University of Technology
Github Skills (6)
qml10
c-language10
user-interface10
cprogramming-language10
qt10
testing9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
qt/qtdeclarative
Dec 2012 - Sep 2015
Qt Declarative (Quick 2)
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily focused on improving the Qt Declarative framework by addressing bugs and enhancing the user interface components. They fixed issues related to text input, ensuring proper cursor updates and handling text changes. Additionally, they contributed to the improvement of mouse interactions within the framework, specifically addressing scenarios related to MouseArea and Flickable components for a smoother user experience. The user's work involved writing tests to validate these changes and improvements within the Qt Declarative framework.
qmlnimbledeclarativeqt5qt
sailfishos/lipstick
Feb 2016 - Feb 2021
Contributions:3 reviews, 9 commits, 7 PRs in 5 years
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