Tobias Hunger
Software Engineer at prefix.dev
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolTobias Hunger is a seasoned software engineer with 17 years of experience building cross-platform systems in Rust and C++ and a deep focus on Qt, SixtyFPS/Slint and tooling for Linux and embedded environments. He has driven low-level improvements to major open-source projects like Qt Base and CMake—optimizing build systems, DBus/ATSPI support and project infrastructure—which reflects his knack for robust build and platform integration. His background includes long-term mantainership of version control and build support in Qt Creator and hands-on delivery across automotive and UI startups, marrying systems-level engineering with pragmatic project management. Based in Berlin, he’s a Slint/UI enthusiast who quietly bridges UI toolkit design and backend infrastructure, making developer workflows and cross-platform builds noticeably smoother.
17 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl. Technoinform. Computer engineering, Dipl. Technoinform. Computer engineering at University of Kaiserslautern
English, German
Stackoverflow
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qt
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Github Skills (16)
build-system10
cmake10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
qt10
dbus9
filesystemwatcher9
file-monitoring9
qt-gui8
testing7
git6
autocomplete6
symlink6
mingw6
gitignore6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
qt/qtbase
Oct 2018 - Sep 2019
Qt Base (Core, Gui, Widgets, Network, ...)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:283 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Tobias primarily contributed to the Qt Base repository, making improvements to the build system and core functionality. Their work includes bug fixes and optimizations for features related to logging, layout policies, and DBus support. They also added support for ATSPI2, the addition of SQL builds, the handling of system libraries, and fixed issues in the pro2cmake scripts. The contributions suggest a focus on improving the build process and low-level aspects of the Qt framework.
qt4c-plus-plusqt5guiwidgets
Kitware/CMake
Feb 2016 - Dec 2018
Mirror of CMake upstream repository
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:76 commits, 3 comments in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Tobias primarily focused on improving the CMake build system for the Qt framework. Their contributions involved fixing typos, improving internal code structure, and refactoring existing methods for better code organization and maintainability. The user also added new commands to support testing and made changes to the server-mode capabilities, for example, the addition of the file system watchers. Furthermore, they made code modifications to handle the global configuration settings.
cppcmakeupstream
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