Kenny Levinsen
Founder, CEO at EPOS
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolKenny Levinsen is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 16 years of experience building and architecting systems from kernel drivers to cloud-scale backends. Based in Copenhagen, he leads Levinsen Software and serves as Chief Architect at Codesealer while doing consulting work in DevOps and large on‑prem compute clusters, blending hands‑on engineering with operational optimization. He’s an active open‑source contributor to prominent projects in the Wayland and desktop ecosystems (sway, wlroots, FreeRDP, kitty) and to device and IoT tooling (zigbee-herdsman), often improving low‑level rendering, input/output handling, and device support. Comfortable across C, C++, Go, JavaScript and Python, he pairs systems‑level debugging with pragmatic CI/CD and virtualization expertise. A less obvious strength is his ability to move between embedded/kernel work and distributed ML/video processing systems, making him adept at solving both hardware-proximal and cloud-scale problems.
16 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
KTSInstallation-technician, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Installation-technician, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at TEC
Danish, English
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Github Skills (64)
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Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
swaywm/sway
May 2019 - Dec 2022
i3-compatible Wayland compositor
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:170 reviews, 70 commits, 155 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Kenny contributed to the i3-compatible Wayland compositor, Sway. Their work primarily involved core system-level improvements related to window management, subsurface handling, and output configuration. They focused on addressing bugs, optimizing rendering, and refining transaction management within the compositor. The contributions enhanced the stability and functionality of Sway, particularly in handling client-side decorations, resize events, and output modes.
compositorwaylandwayland-compositor
swaywm/wlroots
Apr 2020 - Jun 2021
A modular Wayland compositor library
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:111 reviews, 24 commits, 55 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Kenny primarily contributed to the `wlroots` library by addressing various issues related to Wayland compositors. Their work involved fixing bugs, optimizing code, and implementing improvements, particularly in areas such as session management with libseat, drag and drop, and seat capabilities. They also added a new libseat backend, refined gamma handling, and fixed an issue in the xdg_shell.
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