Andrew Hayzen
Senior Software Engineer at KDAB
West Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Hayzen is a Senior Software Engineer at KDAB with five years of professional experience building Qt/C++, QML and OpenGL applications for embedded, mobile and desktop systems. He holds a First Class BSc in Software Engineering from Oxford Brookes and combines disciplined engineering with a strong commitment to open computing, contributing regularly to open source communities. His background includes system application work at Canonical—where he led printing and tabbing components for Ubuntu Touch—and hands-on deployment experience with boot2Qt and Yocto on Wayland systems. Comfortable working remotely with globally distributed teams, he is actively learning Rust and Flatpak packaging to broaden his impact across modern desktop and embedded ecosystems. An invitee to Ubuntu sprints and an Ubuntu Member, he brings both product-facing feature delivery and deep community engagement to every project.
5 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Foundation Course, Computer Science, 85%, Foundation Course, Computer Science, 85% at Oxford Brookes UniversitySecondary School, Secondary School at Stanborough School
English
Github Skills (54)
qt10
widgets10
newsletter10
interop10
pelican10
rust10
fluid9
aio9
cpp9
webassembly8
documentation8
user-interface8
linux8
desktop8
smp8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ahayzen-kdab/cxx-qt
Dec 2021 - Mar 2025
Safe interop between Rust and Qt
Contributions:3 reviews, 5 PRs, 1879 pushes in 3 years 3 months
qt6rustqt5interopsafe
KDAB/cxx-qt
May 2021 - Jan 2023
Safe interop between Rust and Qt
Contributions:6 releases, 2476 reviews, 478 commits in 1 year 7 months
qt6rustqt5interopsafe
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