Shantanu Tushar
Senior Software Engineer at KDE
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolShantanu Tushar is a Senior Software Engineer based in Berlin with 14 years of experience building scalable, performance-focused systems across desktop, backend and distributed platforms. He brings deep C++/Qt expertise from long-term work on KDE and KDAB projects—authoring and maintaining libraries and tools like Gluon Player and contributing UI and backend improvements to the well-known GammaRay inspector. At SoStronk he led cross-platform Qt apps, real-time matchmaking using Glicko2, and kernel-integrated anti-cheat components, demonstrating fluency from low-level systems to cloud-scalable Go services. Comfortable in both product-focused startups and engineering consultancies, he has shipped migrations and integrations for large customers and automated complex platform tasks. Colleagues find him equally at home refactoring build systems and adding pragmatic UI features that improve developer and user workflows. His combination of long-standing open-source stewardship and production-grade systems engineering makes him a strong bridge between developer tooling and product delivery.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelors of Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering at B. M. S. College of Engineering
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Github Skills (18)
c-language10
qt10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
cprogramming-language10
network-analysis9
messaging9
message-system9
message-handler9
messagebox9
message-bus9
debug8
debugging8
github7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
KDAB/GammaRay
Jun 2021 - Jul 2022
GammaRay is a tool to poke around in a Qt-application and also to manipulate the application to some extent.
Role in this project:
Back-end & UI Developer
Back-end & UI DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 8 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Shantanu contributed to enhancing the GammaRay tool by adding functionality to copy stack traces from the message handler. This involved modifications to the UI, specifically adding a context menu option, and implementing the logic to copy the trace to the clipboard. Furthermore, they also worked on capturing the response data from network requests, improving the network operation analysis capabilities. Additionally, the user made code refactoring and build system improvements.
qmlextentqt5pokekdab
KDE/plasma-mediacenter
Feb 2012 - Feb 2015
Contributions:777 commits in 3 years
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