Christoph Sterz
Software Engineer at KDAB
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolChristoph Sterz is a Senior Software Engineer based in Berlin with 11 years of hands-on experience building and improving developer tools and Qt-based applications. At KDAB he focuses on full-stack enhancements to debugging and UI inspection tooling, notably improving GammaRay’s QuickItem and QuickSceneInspector plugins to fix z-ordering, reparenting crashes, and performance issues. He combines a deep systems-engineering background—anchored by a top-grade Master’s in IT Systems Engineering from Hasso Plattner Institute—with practical open-source contributions that reveal both UI-level polish (FPS display, visual texture-waste tools) and robust debugging capabilities. Christoph’s work shows a knack for surfacing non-obvious runtime problems to developers and optimizing tooling workflows rather than just shipping features. Early experience at CERN on document-server author clustering adds a data-focused dimension to his profile. He brings a pragmatic, detail-oriented approach to making complex GUIs and developer tools more reliable and observable.
11 years of coding experience
Master's degree, IT Systems Engineering, 1.0, Master's degree, IT Systems Engineering, 1.0 at Hasso Plattner Institute
Github Skills (9)
qtquick10
c-language10
user-interface10
cprogramming-language10
qt10
debug9
qml9
debugging9
opengl8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
KDAB/GammaRay
Nov 2016 - Mar 2019
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:87 commits, 35 PRs, 120 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Christoph primarily contributed to the improvement of the GammaRay tool's user interface and debugging capabilities, focusing on QuickItem and QuickSceneInspector plugins. Their work involved fixing z-order issues, addressing crashes related to item reparenting, and optimizing QuickItem models. Furthermore, they implemented features such as the display of FPS in the quick preview and added visual tools to reveal texture waste.
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Chaostreff-Potsdam/Chaostreff-Potsdam.github.io
Jan 2019 - Aug 2021
Die Webseite des Chaostreff Potsdam
Contributions:1 review, 19 commits, 11 PRs in 2 years 6 months
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