Manuel Ortiz is a mechatronics engineer with six years of hands-on experience blending hardware understanding and full-stack software development from Mexico. He contributes to notable open-source projects such as KivyMD, where he has fixed UI bugs, improved widget theming and behavior, and added customization properties—work that shows attention to UX details in cross-platform, touch-enabled apps. As a freelancer he pairs pragmatic engineering with documentation and example updates, helping projects be both more robust and more accessible to other developers. Comfortable working across embedded and application layers, he shines at resolving subtle UI state issues and optimizing codebases for maintainability. His background suggests a practical problem-solver who values polish in user interfaces as much as solid underlying systems.
KivyMD is a collection of Material Design compliant widgets for use with Kivy, a framework for cross-platform, touch-enabled graphical applications. https://youtube.com/c/KivyMD https://twitter.com/KivyMD https://habr.com/ru/users/kivymd https://stackoverflow.com/tags/kivymd
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:34 reviews, 29 commits, 20 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Manuel primarily focused on enhancing the KivyMD library by addressing and resolving bugs within the UI components. They implemented fixes for issues related to the MDCheckbox and MDToggleButtons, ensuring correct behavior within groups and proper theming. Furthermore, they added new properties for better customization of the button classes. They also optimized the codebase and updated the documentation and examples.
Open source UI framework written in Python, running on Windows, Linux, macOS, Android and iOS
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push in 1 day
pythonlinux-windowswindowsui-frameworklinux
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