Ricardo Vieira
Software Engineer at Instituto Superior Técnico
Sintra, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolRicardo Vieira is a software engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience blending systems programming and UI development, based in Sintra, Portugal. Trained as an electrical engineering student at Instituto Superior Técnico, he brings a hardware-aware mindset to software problems, particularly in graphics and display systems. His notable open-source work includes significant Wayland backend contributions to the widely used GLFW library—fixing EGL and DRM issues, improving cursor handling, and enabling window resizing—alongside UI/UX enhancements for the QML Material project. Ricardo comfortably spans back-end low-level work and front-end component design, delivering robust, refactored code and visual polish. Colleagues describe him as detail-oriented and pragmatic, often uncovering subtle platform bugs that improve cross-platform reliability. He combines academic grounding in electronics with a practical track record shipping cross-platform graphical tooling.
12 years of coding experience
Licenciatura, Engenharia Elétrica e Eletrônica, Licenciatura, Engenharia Elétrica e Eletrônica at Instituto Superior Técnico
Github Skills (21)
vulkan10
windows10
qtquick10
c1110
c1710
xwindow10
uid10
material-design10
front-end-development10
windowing10
qml10
egl10
window-manager10
opengl10
wayland10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
papyros/qml-material
Jan 2015 - Jan 2016
:book: Material Design implemented in QtQuick
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:33 commits, 36 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Ricardo primarily contributed to the UI/UX development within the QML Material project. Their work included implementing UI components, such as buttons, sliders, radio buttons, checkboxes, action bars and text fields, while refining their styling and functionality. They also updated the color palette and added features like hover animation for UI elements. The user's work also included refactoring the demo, adding visual enhancements, and fixing alignment issues.
material-designqtquick
glfw/glfw
Jun 2014 - Oct 2015
A multi-platform library for OpenGL, OpenGL ES, Vulkan, window and input
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Systems Programmer
Back-end Developer & Systems ProgrammerContributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 8 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Ricardo primarily contributed to the Wayland backend of the GLFW library. Their work involved fixing bugs related to EGL configuration, Wayland's DRM backend, and cursor handling. They added support for resizing windows and setting cursor images. Furthermore, they refactored and optimized Wayland-specific code, including the implementation of standard cursor support.
unixopengl-eswindowsvulkanlinux
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