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francescmaestre/README.md

Hi! I'm Francesc Maestre :)

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Who am I?

As a Principal Engineer I architect and design SDKs, define and implement communication protocols and drivers, and create GUI. I speak C++20/23 fluently, Qt is like a second mother tongue for me, and I also touch Python and Java from time to time. Right now I'm building cross-platform SDKs for a living - the kind that quietly hold up everything else - that are are used by 600+ developers and hold up the games played by 200M+ players worldwide daily. No pressure ;)

I work with most of the mainstream platforms (like Windows, Linux — with Ubuntu, macOS, Android and iOS). I've developed and worked with a mix of REST/RPC implementations, custom protocols, plugin systems, and dependency graphs. I mostly gravitate between the big picture (API design, architectural direction, herding cross-team initiatives, and the occasional technical interview) and the depths of hands-on code migrations in the games and client-platform systems.

I'm known as Baron of Migrations, Lord of Refactors, and Slayer of SDKs. I wololo legacy code into the present: Qt4/5 turns into Qt6, C++11 becomes C++20/23, and the good old "don't touch it, it works" becomes code one can actually read and understand.

I've seen things in those codebases that you people wouldn't believe...

How I Code

  • I always try to make the code readable, as if it were natural language: no opaque nested instructions, but clear definitions instead.
  • When migrating legacy code, I always do it one safe step at a time, clearly differentiating between what is a refactor and what is a re-implementation. No heroic big-bangs.
  • I love a good performance win, but I measure first. Premature optimization is just guessing with extra steps.

Connect with Me

LinkedIn Email Website

Tech Stack

Languages & Frameworks

C++ Qt C CMake Python Bash

Platforms & Tools

Windows Linux macOS Android iOS Git GitHub VS Code

Personal Projects

In addition to keeping the C++ foundations at King, I also have some side quests going on:

Project Description Stars
GitQlient Multi-platform Git client written with Qt star
QLogger Multi-threaded logger written for Qt star
GitQlientPlugin Integration of GitQlient in QtCreator as a plugin star

Now in the making: Setting up my own home server... more to come!

Geek Area

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  1. GitQlient GitQlient Public

    GitQlient: Multi-platform Git client written with Qt.

    C++ 886 86

  2. GitQlientPlugin GitQlientPlugin Public

    GitQlientPlugin provides you a plugin to integrate Git in QtCreator full UI oriented

    C++ 45 2

  3. QLogger QLogger Public

    Multi-threading logger for Qt applications

    C++ 62 24

  4. BenchmarkTool BenchmarkTool Public

    C++ library that tracks the time it takes a function to run. It creates a calling tree.

    C++ 5 2

  5. QPinnableTabWidget QPinnableTabWidget Public

    QPinableTabWidget is a normal QTabWidget that allows you to pin and unpin tabs.

    C++ 12 5

  6. git git Public

    Git Qt helper classes

    C++ 2 2