Lorn Potter
Qt, Qml Freelance Developer Owner at llornkcor technologies
Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolLorn Potter is a seasoned Qt and QML freelance developer and owner with 13+ years building embedded Linux, IoT, and cross-platform solutions, currently based in Queensland, Australia. He maintains Qt for WebAssembly and QtSensors upstream, and has driven WebAssembly build and rendering fixes across flagship Qt modules like qtbase and qtdeclarative. A former Trolltech/Nokia engineer, he architected the QtSystemInfo and QtSensorGestures APIs and implemented many platform backends (Windows, macOS, Linux, MeeGo), bringing deep experience in sensors, connectivity, and hardware enablement. Lorn combines low-level systems work—BSPs, libhybris Android layers, and middleware—with higher-level QML/Qt Quick development and DevOps for Wasm builds. Outside software he’s an accomplished audio engineer, composer and recordist, reflecting a long-standing practice of blending technical precision with creative craft. His profile uniquely mixes open-source stewardship on prominent Qt repositories with hands-on embedded hardware adaptation.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Niwot High Schooljournalism, journalism at University of Colorado BoulderCertificate, Radio and Tv Broadcasting, Certificate, Radio and Tv Broadcasting at Career Development Center, Longmont, Colorado
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Github Skills (25)
c-language10
qt10
qtquick10
bash10
build-system10
bash-shell10
automation10
script10
front-end-development10
sh10
powershell10
emscripten10
blazor-webassembly10
automations10
webassembly10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
qt/qtbase
Oct 2017 - Nov 2022
Qt Base (Core, Gui, Widgets, Network, ...)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:201 commits in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Lorn's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the Qt Base library with WebAssembly (Wasm) support. They addressed several issues, including fixing build configurations for specific features, enabling network functionality, improving keyboard and mouse event handling, adding clipboard support, and fixing various download and rendering bugs. These changes involved modifications across multiple modules, particularly related to networking, platform integration, and graphics rendering within the Wasm environment.
qt4c-plus-plusqt5guiwidgets
qt/qtdeclarative
Dec 2017 - Aug 2022
Qt Declarative (Quick 2)
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:21 commits in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Lorn primarily contributed to the Qt Declarative (Quick 2) repository, fixing build issues related to threading and network configurations, and addressing WebGL rendering problems. Their work involved modifying build configurations and fixing issues related to OpenGL and depth stencil buffers to improve the rendering pipeline. Additionally, they corrected a threading issue in the pixmap reader and enabled shapes for no-thread builds. The user's contributions spanned across multiple areas of the Qt framework.
qmlnimbledeclarativeqt5qt
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