Gábor Kiss-vámosi
CEO at LVGL
Szokolya, Hungary
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Gábor Kiss-vámosi is the founder and CEO of LVGL, the leading open-source graphics library for embedded systems, with a decade of hands-on experience building embedded UIs and driving a global contributor community. He combines product leadership with deep embedded engineering expertise—ports and drivers he authored enable LVGL on platforms from Linux framebuffers to ESP32 and MicroPython. His background spans research and commercial product work, from low-power IoT systems to high-end audio hardware, giving him a pragmatic, systems-level perspective on UI and hardware integration. Notably, he personally contributes to core simulator, driver, and theming work, evidencing a rare blend of organizational leadership and day-to-day codecraft. Based in Hungary, he focuses on making high-quality, responsive embedded interfaces accessible to developers worldwide.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Óbuda University
Github Skills (40)
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ui-design10
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
lvgl/lv_drivers
Nov 2017 - Dec 2022
TFT and touch pad drivers for LVGL embedded GUI library
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / UI Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / UI DeveloperContributions:1 release, 34 reviews, 232 commits in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Gábor primarily focused on updating and adding display drivers for the LVGL embedded GUI library. The commits involved porting existing drivers from a hardware repository and updating them to be compatible with a hardware abstraction layer (HAL). The user also added support for the ILI9340 and SHARP MIP displays, including initialization and flush functions, indicating a focus on UI integration for various display technologies.
driversdrivercppgui-librarypad
lvgl/lvgl
Jun 2016 - Jan 2023
Embedded graphics library to create beautiful UIs for any MCU, MPU and display type.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:34 releases, 2985 reviews, 5894 commits in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Gábor has primarily focused on enhancing the user interface of the LVGL library, including incorporating font support from external files and addressing issues related to image handling and transformations. This is evident from the commits that replace Arial fonts with Lato, integrate image transformations for the A8 color format, and incorporate improvements to the scaling and tiling of images. Moreover, there are also changes to support better text alignment options within the user interface elements.
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