Elvis Stansvik is a systems architect and seasoned software engineer with 20 years of experience building robust C/C++, Python and Qt applications on Linux, now leading systems work at AVTECH Sweden. He has been product owner for Orexplore Insight, blending hands-on backend and operations contributions with product stewardship. Elvis is an active open-source contributor—his work spans Crossbar.io examples, protoc-gen-doc improvements, and deep KDE/Krita plumbing—showing comfort across frontend, backend and tooling. He favors clean code and practical refactors, evidenced by authentication and documentation enhancements in community projects. Comfortable operating between low-level C++ systems and Python-driven DevOps, he thrives collaborating with driven teams and learning from peers. Based in Stockholm, he combines academic grounding from KTH with a pragmatic focus on shipping maintainable, production-ready software.
20 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Civilingenjörsexamen, Datateknik, Civilingenjörsexamen, Datateknik at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Datorprogrammering, Datorprogrammering at Örebro University
Documentation generator plugin for Google Protocol Buffers
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:4 releases, 243 commits, 5 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Elvis primarily focused on enhancing the documentation generator plugin for Google Protocol Buffers. Their contributions included adding an HTML example, fixing validation issues, and improving the output and CSS of the generated documentation. They also introduced support for both Markdown and file-level documentation, as well as improved the build system. Furthermore, the user added support for excluding messages, enums, and values, and provided file and service documentation capabilities.
Krita is a free and open source cross-platform application that offers an end-to-end solution for creating digital art files from scratch built on the KDE and Qt frameworks.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:152 commits in 8 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Elvis primarily contributed to the `libs/textlayout` and `libs/flake` directories, focusing on text layout and shape manipulation within the Krita application. Their work included fixing a copy constructor issue in TableIterator, documenting the class, and implementing support for the "style:wrap-dynamic-threshold" feature, enhancing text wrapping behavior. They also addressed bugs related to ODF loading and applied code style improvements, demonstrating a focus on code quality and feature enhancements.
artend-to-enddigital-artlinuxgui
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Elvis Stansvik - Systems Architect at AVTECH Sweden