Lukas Tvrdy
Senior Software Engineer at KDE
Slovakia
Summary
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Top SchoolLukas Tvrdy is a Senior Software Engineer with 18 years of experience specializing in Qt/C++ and multimedia software, currently delivering remote customer projects at Milo Solutions while continuing long-term development on the Krita digital painting application. He has been a sponsored full-time Krita developer since 2010 and contributed brush engines, painting tools, image filters and unit tests to one of the flagship open-source creative suites in the KDE ecosystem. His background spans embedded automotive and industrial firmware work, giving him a rare combination of low-level systems discipline and high-level graphics expertise. Lukas’s career includes senior roles at Prosoft and REC Slovakia and early Google Summer of Code work, reflecting a sustained commitment to open-source collaboration and practical engineering. Colleagues rely on him for robust C++ architecture and nuanced UI interaction work that bridges artist-facing features and performant core libraries.
18 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master Of Science, Computer Science, Master Of Science, Computer Science at Technical University of OstravaTechnical University of Ostrava, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
English
Github Skills (7)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
qt10
image-processing10
k10
front-end-development9
unit-testing9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
KDE/krita
May 2008 - May 2016
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:875 commits in 8 years
Contributions summary:Lukas's commits focus on adding features to the Krita image editing software related to brush properties. The commits involve modifying code to allow tools to request brush size from paint operations, adding new parameters for curve brushes, and fixing problems with text brush functionality and G'MIC filter application. Furthermore, the user implemented unit tests to verify image transformations and G'MIC filter behaviour.
qt-framework
donniexyz/calligra
May 2008 - Apr 2015
Contributions:977 commits in 7 years
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