Daniel Althviz Moré
Software Engineer at Quansight
Colombia, Chile
Summary
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RockstarDaniel Althviz Moré is a software engineer with 10 years of experience specializing in Python desktop tooling, IDE integrations, and language-server technology. With an MSc in Software Engineering and roots in Colombia/Chile, he has contributed significantly to prominent open-source projects like Spyder, Jupyter QtConsole, and the Python Language Server, improving UX, cross-platform compatibility, and robustness. His work spans full-stack plugin development, backend language-server fixes, and test automation—demonstrating a rare blend of UI polish and low-level reliability improvements. Notable contributions include adding MD5 validation to prevent font corruption in qtawesome, enhancing completion and hover behavior in language tooling, and hardening tests for Windows UNC path handling. He pairs hands-on coding with technical writing for documentation, showing care for both developer experience and end-user usability. Colleagues can expect pragmatic problem-solving focused on maintainability and cross-environment correctness.
10 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (50)
ux-design10
pari10
visualization10
pyq10
pytest10
qt10
python10
jupyter10
sphinx10
testing10
spyder10
qt-console10
pyside10
ipython10
user-interface10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
spyder-ide/qtpy
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
Provides an uniform layer to support PyQt5, PySide2, PyQt6, PySide6 with a single codebase
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:15 releases, 182 reviews, 176 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Daniel contributed to the `qtpy` project, which provides a compatibility layer for Qt bindings in Python. Their contributions primarily involved updating the codebase to support different versions of PyQt, PySide, and Qt, including adding new features like `QWebEngineProfile` and addressing backward compatibility issues. Furthermore, they made release updates by modifying the version information, and added tests and validations related to the Qt modules. They also tackled platform specific compatibility issues, such as Windows support for QtDataVisualization.
pyside2pythonpyside6pyqt5pyqt
spyder-ide/qtawesome
Dec 2016 - Dec 2022
Iconic fonts in PyQt and PySide applications
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 releases, 56 reviews, 99 commits in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Daniel focused on improving the robustness and usability of the `qtawesome` project, a library for using iconic fonts in PyQt/PySide applications. They added MD5 validation to prevent font corruption and improved code readability using dictionaries. Furthermore, they addressed code style issues and added validation to check the existence of a QApplication instance, ensuring correct functionality. The user also added a warning and tests within the icon method to provide more feedback to users.
pythonttkpyside6fontfonts
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