Andrius Štikonas
Software Engineer
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarAndrius Štikonas is a seasoned software engineer with 18 years of experience, based in Cambridge, UK, known for deep involvement in KDE projects as maintainer of KDE Partition Manager and KPMcore. He specializes in low-level systems and installer tooling, contributing substantial refactors and modernization work to the widely used Calamares distribution-independent installer framework. His strengths include modernizing legacy C++ codebases (introducing C++11 idioms), improving LVM and partition table handling, and eliminating deprecated dependencies to boost maintainability. Comfortable across back-end and system-level challenges, he combines steady open-source stewardship with practical engineering that keeps installers and disk-management tools reliable across distributions. An often-overlooked asset is his knack for incremental, risk-aware improvements that make complex storage operations safer for end users and integrators.
18 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (9)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
partitioning9
lvm8
qt8
manjaro6
kde-plasma6
compiler-construction6
data-loss6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
calamares/calamares
Sep 2016 - Oct 2020
Distribution-independent installer framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 18 PRs, 2 pushes in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Andrius focused on refactoring and modernizing the codebase, primarily related to the installer framework. They converted loops to C++11 ranged for loops, updated code to use newer KPMcore functionality, and made adjustments for LVM device handling and partition table creation. The user also addressed deprecated functions and dependencies, ensuring the project's maintainability and compatibility with modern systems.
calamaresinstallerlinuxframework-installerindependent
stikonas/Vulture-NetHack-3.6.6
May 2021 - May 2021
An ongoing update Vulture's for Nethack 3.60 to Nethack 3.6.6
Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes in 1 day
ongoingupdatevulturenethack
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