David Schalin is a KTH computer science student completing his bachelor with experience spanning teaching, student leadership, and hands-on engineering. He has 11 years of work experience including roles as a teaching assistant for large introductory CS courses and contributions to open-source C++ packaging via Conan Center recipes, where he improved build tooling and dependency management. David combines practical backend engineering skills with people leadership—having led teams of 80 and run high-revenue student events—while balancing part-time hospitality work as a bartender. His research-rooted GitHub interests in many-body physics and HPC hint at strong quantitative problem-solving and familiarity with performance-conscious code. Based in Stockholm, he bridges academic rigor and real-world delivery, excelling at making complex systems reliable and teachable.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science in Engineering - MEng, Computer Science, Master of Science in Engineering - MEng, Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Contributions:14 reviews, 5 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of recipes for the ConanCenter repository. Their work involved adding and updating Conan recipes for various C++ libraries, including h5pp. They made significant changes to the `conanfile.py` files, demonstrating proficiency in packaging and dependency management. The user also simplified testing procedures and addressed build issues by modifying CMake configuration and dependency declarations.
Contributions:31 commits, 300 pushes, 4 branches in 1 month
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David Schalin - Bartender at Kungliga Tekniska högskolan