Scott Moreau
Software Engineer at Wayfire (Open Sourced Project)
Pueblo, Colorado, United States
Summary
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RockstarScott Moreau is a seasoned software engineer with 17 years of experience and a decade of active open-source C/C++ development, particularly in low-level systems, kernel/user-space interactions, IPC, and device drivers. Based in Pueblo, Colorado, he has been a key back-end contributor to high-profile Wayland projects—Wayfire, wlroots, and Dolphin emulator integrations—bringing stability and enhanced platform compatibility to compositors and emulation input subsystems. His work spans graphics and shader ports (including compiz plugins to GLSL), animated transitions, and Xwayland resilience, demonstrating a rare mix of graphics, input, and platform integration expertise. Scott also delivers practical tooling and firmware work—authoring a Qt Chromecast controller, USB audio firmware for STM32, and configuration GUIs—that show hands-on systems engineering across software and embedded domains. Known for maintaining repositories and user support, he balances deep technical fixes with usability improvements and long-term maintainability. An underrated strength is his ability to translate legacy graphics concepts into modern Wayland-friendly implementations, preserving functionality while modernizing architecture.
17 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (18)
c-language10
sdl10
c1110
c1710
x1110
cpp10
cprogramming-language10
opengl10
wayland10
emulation10
cmake9
window-management9
g8
cube8
wii8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
WayfireWM/wayfire
Jun 2018 - Jan 2023
A modular and extensible wayland compositor
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:99 reviews, 191 commits, 237 PRs in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily contributed to the wayfire compositor, adding and modifying plugins to extend its functionality. Their work includes implementing a window placement plugin with different placement modes, and implementing animated transitions for the zoom plugin. In addition to these plugins, they contributed to the fisheye and alpha plugins, improving the wayfire compositor.
waylandcompositormodularextensiblewayland-compositor
swaywm/wlroots
Oct 2019 - Oct 2020
A modular Wayland compositor library
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 17 PRs, 33 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Scott's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the Xwayland integration within the wlroots library. They implemented features to improve the handling of configure requests and ensure correct behavior when Xwayland restarts or fails to start. The changes involved modifying core system components, including the xwm and server modules, which improved the overall stability and reliability of compositors built using wlroots.
waylandx11compositormodularwayland-compositor
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