Andrew Hayzen
Senior Software Engineer at KDAB
West Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Hayzen is a Senior Software Engineer at KDAB with five years of professional experience building Qt/C++, QML and OpenGL applications for embedded, mobile and desktop systems. He holds a First Class BSc in Software Engineering from Oxford Brookes and combines disciplined engineering with a strong commitment to open computing, contributing regularly to open source communities. His background includes system application work at Canonical—where he led printing and tabbing components for Ubuntu Touch—and hands-on deployment experience with boot2Qt and Yocto on Wayland systems. Comfortable working remotely with globally distributed teams, he is actively learning Rust and Flatpak packaging to broaden his impact across modern desktop and embedded ecosystems. An invitee to Ubuntu sprints and an Ubuntu Member, he brings both product-facing feature delivery and deep community engagement to every project.
5 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Foundation Course, Computer Science, 85%, Foundation Course, Computer Science, 85% at Oxford Brookes UniversitySecondary School, Secondary School at Stanborough School
English
Github Skills (53)
asynchronous10
smp10
qt10
aio10
rust10
messaging9
mqtt-protocol9
widgets9
python-app9
mosquitto9
newsletter9
pubsub9
pelican9
cpp9
iiot9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ahayzen-kdab/cxx-qt
Dec 2021 - Jul 2026
Safe interop between Rust and Qt
Contributions:3 reviews, 5 PRs, 2000 pushes in 4 years 7 months
qtrust
KDAB/cxx-qt-cmake
Jul 2024 - Jun 2026
The CMake code associated with CXX-Qt.
Contributions:23 reviews, 5 PRs, 22 pushes in 1 year 11 months
cmakeqt
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