Sixten Segell
Senior C Software Engineer at King
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolSixten Segell is a Senior C/C++ Software Engineer based in Stockholm with 15 years of experience building cross-platform systems and developer tooling. He has shipped production C++ SDKs and worked across embedded, desktop and mobile domains at companies like Teledyne FLIR and King, while also contributing DevOps and consulting expertise from roles at Ericsson and HiQ. An active open-source contributor to the widely used Conan package manager ecosystem, he improved CMake integration, platform runtime detection and system package tooling—bridging build systems and package management. He pairs hands-on engineering with clear technical writing, having authored documentation for complex build helpers and linkage macros. Known for pragmatic problem solving, he often focuses on the integration points that make C++ projects portable and reproducible across toolchains.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Stockholms universitetMathematics and Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at IT-Gymnasiet Södertörn
Swedish, English
Github Skills (20)
c-language10
restructuredtext10
conan10
cmake10
c1110
doc10
c1710
package-manager-tool10
package-manager10
cprogramming-language10
documentation10
python9
automation9
automations9
linux8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
conan-io/cmake-conan
Jan 2017 - Feb 2017
CMake wrapper for conan C and C++ package manager
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 7 PRs, 10 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Sixten primarily contributed to the `conan-io/cmake-conan` repository, which provides a CMake wrapper for the Conan package manager. Their work focused on enhancing the integration between CMake and Conan, including features like detecting Visual Studio runtimes, auto-detecting GCC libcxx flags, and adding support for the cmake-multi generator. Additionally, the user fixed working directory issues during Conan installations and added support for conan.cmake in exported packages. They also refactored the codebase by removing a workaround and added the ability to set libstdc++/libstdc++11 via the command line.
cppcmakecmake-wrapperpackage-managerconan
conan-io/conan
Jan 2017 - Jun 2017
Conan - The open-source C and C++ package manager
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits, 7 PRs, 48 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Sixten primarily contributed to the Conan package manager by implementing CMake-related features, including macros and target linking. Their work involved modifying CMake generators to improve library linking and add new variables. Additionally, the user made significant improvements to the system package tool, enhancing its functionality for installing dependencies on various Linux distributions and macOS. These changes included updates to the update and install processes.
cppcmakepackage-managerlinuxmulti-platform
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