Emmanuele Bassi
Software Developer at Igalia
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolEmmanuele Bassi is a seasoned software developer with 20 years of experience specializing in desktop and embedded application toolkits, notably GTK+, GNOME technologies and the hardware-accelerated Clutter UI toolkit. Based in London, he combines deep systems and build-system expertise—evidenced by significant contributions to projects like libepoxy, Meson, and GLib—with hands-on work at companies such as Igalia, Endless, Intel and Mozilla. He has a strong track record in improving portability, maintainability and build infrastructure (Meson/CMake/Autotools) as well as fixing subtle memory and API issues in core libraries. A long-time GNOME maintainer and former Foundation director, he brings both technical stewardship and community governance experience. Away from the obvious, he pairs low-level engineering chops with an eye for developer experience, having improved CI, bundling (Flatpak) and developer tooling across platforms.
20 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
University of MilanComputer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Politecnico di MilanoDiploma di Maturità Scientifica, Diploma di Maturità Scientifica at Liceo Scientifico G. Gandini
English, Italian
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Github Skills (27)
python10
memory-management10
build-system10
c-programming10
c1110
c1710
mesonbuild10
opengl10
api-design9
glx9
glib9
build-automation9
egl9
parser8
c898
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
anholt/libepoxy
Nov 2016 - Dec 2022
Epoxy is a library for handling OpenGL function pointer management for you
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 releases, 12 reviews, 240 commits in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Emmanuele primarily focused on improving the build system and overall maintainability of the libepoxy library. They made significant changes to the build process, including forcing the regeneration of autotools-generated files, reverting problematic changes from CMake, and reworking build rules for Meson. Additionally, the user added features such as checking for the availability of GLX and EGL, improving the stability and portability of the library.
openglepoxyhandlingpointer
GNOME/glib
Aug 2006 - Jan 2023
Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:673 commits, 7 comments in 16 years 8 months
Contributions summary:The user, Emmanuele Bassi, contributed to the GLib library, specifically focusing on the GBookmarkFile and GTimer implementations. Their work included plugging memory leaks, adding support for expanding desktop entry variables, refactoring to use GDateTime, enhancing API, adding a clear function to GArray, and addressing date validation issues. The changes mainly involved modifying existing code and fixing bugs within the library, reflecting a back-end development focus.
pygobjectgnome-shell-extensiongtk-rsgnomegitlab
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