Sean Harmer
Founder at KDE
Macclesfield, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSean Harmer is a founder and seasoned software leader with 14+ years building high-performance, real-time graphics and systems software, currently juggling leadership at KDAB UK and a new venture, STREAMLINE SPORTS. A PhD-trained astrophysicist and mathematician, he combines deep algorithmic thinking with hands-on expertise in Modern C++, Vulkan, OpenGL, Qt (lead architect and maintainer of Qt 3D), and Ruby on Rails. He has driven large rewrites and architectural overhauls—most notably modernizing the Qt 3D module to handle today’s multi-threaded, PBR-driven rendering workloads—and contributes to flagship Qt repositories such as qtdeclarative. Equally comfortable in business-facing roles, he directs operations, BD, contracts and training while still delivering technical mentorship and global conference presentations. Known for favoring open standards and pragmatic, testable designs, he also brings system administration and embedded Linux experience that bridges development and operational needs.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Astrophysics, Ph.D., Astrophysics at Keele University
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Github Skills (11)
qml10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
shader10
qt10
opengl10
glsl9
opengl-es9
virtual-reality6
qt3d6
oculus6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
qt/qtdeclarative
Jul 2012 - Dec 2015
Qt Declarative (Quick 2)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:15 commits in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Sean primarily contributed to the Qt Declarative (Quick 2) repository by addressing compilation issues, and improving the OpenGL ES2 compatibility, particularly when using Khronos headers. Their work involved modifying existing code and adding conditional compilation directives based on OpenGL versions. Additionally, the user refactored shader implementations and updated the QML matrix4x4 type and utility functions. The user also fixed shader related issues and added a function that is useful for the Qt3D project.
qmlnimbledeclarativeqt5qt
seanharmer/gli
Nov 2015 - Mar 2022
OpenGL Image (GLI)
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 4 months
openglopengl3opengl-esgraphics
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