Filipe Azevedo
Senior Software Engineer, Qt Expert, Consultant at KDAB France
Greater Bordeaux Metropolitan Area France
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Top SchoolFilipe Azevedo is a Senior Software Engineer and Qt expert with 19 years of experience delivering cross-platform C++ applications and consulting on Qt porting across Qt3–Qt6 for macOS, iOS and Linux. Based in the Greater Bordeaux area, he combines deep R&D and consultancy skills at KDAB with hands-on implementation work, from UI polish to build-system and platform-specific fixes. An active open-source contributor, he has improved core QtBase iOS behaviors and enhanced GammaRay’s Qt-based inspection tools, and contributed non-trivial symlink and VFS support to the widely used rclone project. Known for pragmatic refactoring and cross-platform problem solving, he pairs legacy-porting expertise with modern engineering practices to make complex GUI and systems codebase migrations reliable.
19 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Level III Software Developer Title, Level III Software Developer Title at AFPA AmiensBachelor's degree, Management & Computer (STT IG), Bachelor's degree, Management & Computer (STT IG) at Lycée Edouard GandQt Specialist / Expert, Qt Specialist / Expert at Pearson VUE / Nokia
French, English
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Github Skills (25)
symlink10
objective-c10
filesystem10
virtual-file-system10
ios10
c-language10
qt10
ui-design10
vfs10
uid10
go10
front-end-development10
cprogramming-language10
golang9
macos9
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
KDAB/GammaRay
Nov 2014 - Dec 2017
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:307 commits, 113 PRs, 611 pushes in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Filipe's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the Qt-based application GammaRay, with a particular emphasis on improving the user interface and functionality. Their work included fixing UI issues related to the display of comboboxes and layouts on macOS, and refactoring the code. They also made platform-independent changes to the build system.
qmlextentqt5pokekdab
rclone/rclone
Jul 2022 - Dec 2022
"rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob, Azure Files, Yandex Files
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 8 commits, 1 PR in 5 months
Contributions summary:Filipe primarily contributed to the `rclone` project's VFS (Virtual File System) and mount functionalities, focusing on symlink support. They implemented symlink creation, reading, and permission handling, as well as integrating them into mount2 and mount components. The user also made changes to incorporate a command-line switch for symlink support, modify file modes, and add new methods within the VFS and mount2 interfaces, impacting how symlinks are managed.
googlefile-storageyandexonedrivestorage
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