Inge Wallin
Co-Founder at Calligra Suite
Linköping, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolInge Wallin is a seasoned software engineer and co-founder with 34 years of experience combining open source stewardship, product-focused engineering, and business development. Based in Linköping, Sweden, she has been a long-time KDE contributor and comaintainer of Marble while also maintaining Calligra components like KChart, bringing deep expertise in C++, Qt, and digital imaging—evidenced by bug fixes to Krita’s vector rendering and text handling. She has founded and led multiple companies, blending go-to-market skills with technical leadership from system administration to automotive Linux platforms. Currently building an energy startup in stealth, she pairs pragmatic engineering with open source business models to turn community-driven projects into sustainable ventures. An often-overlooked strength is her track record of moving between hands-on debugging and strategic product roles, making her effective at closing the gap between developer needs and market outcomes.
34 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Linköping University
English, German, Thai, Danish, Swedish
Github Skills (5)
debug10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
image-processing10
graphic9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
KDE/krita
Jan 2006 - Apr 2015
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
Back-end DeveloperContributions:435 commits in 9 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Inge primarily focused on addressing and resolving specific bugs within the Krita project. Their contributions involved modifying the code to correct issues with image rendering, particularly those related to how vector images are handled and displayed. Additionally, they improved the way the chart shape saves files and fixed issues related to text formatting and display in the application. The user demonstrated proficiency in debugging and modifying code related to image manipulation.
artend-to-enddigital-artlinuxgui
ingwal/cx
Nov 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:29 pushes, 7 branches in 1 month
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