Viktor Arvidsson
Co Founder at PureRef
Greater Stockholm Metropolitan Area Sweden
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolViktor Arvidsson is a seasoned generalist programmer and co-founder of PureRef with nine years of professional experience building everything from low-level hardware interfaces to cross-platform desktop tools and web apps. He combines deep hands-on development—owning PureRef’s application, website, and support—with senior tooling work at Avalanche Studios, demonstrating expertise in large codebases and team collaboration. A pragmatic problem-solver, he has contributed notable fixes to Qt Base (improving cross-platform windowing, clipboard, and text rendering) and maintains automation-focused contributions to the Conan Center Index. Viktor’s work shows a consistent emphasis on polish and usability: he values small details that materially improve user experience while still shipping under tight deadlines. Based in Stockholm and trained in computer game engineering, he brings an uncommon blend of game-oriented creativity and systems-level rigor to developer tools and graphical workflows.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Game Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Computer Game Engineering at Luleå University of Technology
Swedish, English
Github Skills (32)
dependency-manager10
dependency-management10
cpp-library10
javascript10
c-language10
qt10
package-management10
dependency-analysis10
conan10
windows10
cmake10
recipe10
searching10
docusaurus10
cprogramming-language10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
easyops-cn/docusaurus-search-local
May 2022 - Jun 2022
Offline/local search for Docusaurus v2/v3
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:22 reviews, 12 commits, 6 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Viktor primarily focused on enhancing the search functionality within the Docusaurus documentation site. Their work involved adding options to disable the default Lunr stemmer, fixing the parsing of top-level sections, improving search term highlighting, and implementing versioned search capabilities. They also addressed issues related to the search page in different documentation versions and refactored the search bar component to correctly fetch index data.
docusaurus2docusauruslocal-searchdocusaurus-v2offline
conan-io/conan-center-index
Mar 2022 - Mar 2022
Recipes for the ConanCenter repository
Role in this project:Backend Developer & Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:7 reviews, 2 commits, 10 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Viktor primarily contributes to the ConanCenter Index by updating recipe files and associated configurations. The user has focused on improving recipes, adding new features, and fixing build issues for various C++ libraries, particularly Qt6. They also work on enabling new options and managing dependencies. Additionally, they demonstrate a focus on CI/CD configuration and automating builds.
dependenciescpprecipespackage-managerconan-recipe
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