All of our Qt and Squish Instructors qualify themselves by years of real-life, large-scale development experience as well as strong backgrounds in teaching.
Although it is usually not possible to specify a particular instructor except by special agreement, it is possible to select a language in which your training will be taught. Available languages are: English, German, French, Danish, Hungarian, Romanian, and Swedish. By default, courses will be held in English. The course material is always in English, except by special agreement.
| Jesper K. Pedersen | |
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Senior Software Engineer at KDAB. Jesper has actively developed with Qt since 1998 and is the mind behind numerous KDE programs and components, as well as the main author of the course material we use for the Qt courses. He holds an MS in Computer Science and has taught more than 50 Qt classes for companies like Boeing, ChevronTexaco, IBM, and Veritas. Languages: English, Danish. |
| Matthias Kalle Dalheimer | |
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The President and CEO of KDAB. Matthias has actively developed with Qt since 1996 and is a founding member of the KDE project. He holds an MS in Computer Science and has taught more than thirty Qt classes for companies like Ericsson, Motorola, and J.D. Edwards. Languages: English, German, Swedish. |
| David Faure | |
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Senior Software Engineer at KDAB. David is one of the most proficient and prolific developers of the KDE project, where he has worked on all from the file manager and web browser Konqueror via the foundation libraries to the KOffice suite. He holds an MS in Computer Science and has taught Qt and KDE development at various conferences and to companies like Michelin, Schlumberger, and Haute-Ecole Valaisienne. Languages: English, French. |
| Steffen Hansen | |
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Senior Software Engineer at KDAB. Steffen has actively developed with Qt since 1997 and was responsible for several of the components of the KDE Desktop like the display manager kdm and the service manager kded. He holds an MS in Computer Science and has taught numerous Qt classes for companies like ChevronTexaco, BBC, and J.D. Edwards. Languages: English, Danish. |
| Marc Mutz | |
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Senior Software Engineer at KDAB. Marc has actively developed with Qt since 2001 and is, among other things, core developer of the KDE email client KMail, and lead developer of the Aegypten II project. He holds an MS in Theoretical Physics and has taught C/C++, Software Methodology, Qt and KDE Development at universities, conferences and to companies like Schlumberger, EADS and Siemens. Languages: English, German. |
| Till Adam | |
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Senior Software Engineer at KDAB. Till has actively developed with Qt since 2002 and is a core developer of KDE’s personal information applications and libraries. He has written and maintained camera drivers for the Linux kernel and remote display software for embedded devices and frequently speaks at conferences on technical and non-technical topics. He has taught C, C++, Qt, and KDE programming at universities and companies such as Saab Bofors, BAE Systems, and Paradigm. Languages: English, German. |
| Romain Pokrzywka | |
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Senior Software Engineer at KDAB. Romain has actively developed with Qt since 2004. He works in San Francisco’s KDAB office as a consultant and a trainer. His experience with Qt spans the desktop, mobile and embedded platforms, with a focus on advanced user interfaces using the full potential of the hardware. He has taught many ‘Qt for Desktop’ and ‘Qt for Embedded’ trainings in the United States and the rest of the world, including big players like Nokia and Intel. Lately he enjoys teaching the new Qt Quick trainings in the Bay Area. Languages: English, French, Swedish. |
| András Mantia | |
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Software Engineer at KDAB. András has actively developed with Qt since 2002 and is a core developer of KDE’s web development environment Quanta Plus and contributor to other parts of KDE. He talks at free software events about Qt-based products and has held trainings for companies like Accenture, TietoEnator, and Nokia. Languages: English, Hungarian, Romanian. |
| Katrina Niolet | |
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Software Engineer at KDAB. Katrina has actively developed with Qt since 2004. As a contributor to both the QtD and PHP-Qt language bindings and the author of the IQuiP library, she is experienced with not only developing Qt applications, but also with Qt’s inner workings and with complex multi-language library integrations. She is an active member of the Open Source community and has given talks on topics ranging from C++ software development to Linux-based telecommunications. In addition to her role as a Software Engineer, Katrina manages KDAB’s Houston office and has held Qt trainings in Finland, the United States, and Canada. Languages: English. |
| Nicolas Arnaud-Cormos | |
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Senior Software Engineer at KDAB. Nicolas has actively developed with Qt since 2001 and is a founding member of Qtfr, the French Qt community site. He holds a MS in Computer Science and has held Qt trainings for companies like CRAL and ST-Ericsson. Languages: English, French. |
| Kevin Ottens | |
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Software Engineer at KDAB. Kevin is a long term contributor of the KDE community. He contributes to KDE’s software stack at large, with a strong emphasis on API design and frameworks architecture. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and has taught Qt and KDE development at conferences, universities and to companies. Languages: English, French |
| Tobias Nätterlund | |
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Software engineer at KDAB. Tobias has actively developed with Qt since 2006, and is the co-author of the Squish training material. He was also the maintainer of our automated testing tool for several years. He holds an MS in Computer Science and has held Squish training courses in Germany as well as in Sweden. Languages: English, Swedish |
| Mike McQuaid | |
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Software Engineer at KDAB. Mike has actively developed with Qt since 2007. He has contributed to KDEPIM, KDE on Mac, QtScriptGenerator, the Linux kernel and other open-source software projects. He was the lead Qt developer at Mendeley where he designed the new model-view architecture for the popular Mendeley Desktop academic reference management software. He holds a BS in Computer and Management Science and has held Qt trainings around Europe. Languages: English |
| Kevin Krammer | |
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Software Engineer at KDAB. Kevin has actively developed with Qt since 2000 and has been an active KDE contributor for the same time. He is also a founding member of the Qt developer community web site QtCentre. Kevin holds a BS in Software and Communications Engineering. Languages: English, German |
| Volker Krause | |
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Senior Software Engineer at KDAB. Volker has actively developed with Qt since 2002. He joined KDAB in 2007 and has been doing software development on a number of large projects since then, as well as leading some of them using Scrum methods. Volker is also an active long term contributor to the KDE community and the maintainer of the Akonadi personal information management framework. Volker holds an MS in Computer Science. Languages: English, German |
| Stephen Kelly | |
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Software Engineer at KDAB. Stephen has been actively developing with Qt since 2007 and has been an active KDE contributor for the same time. He has contributed to KDE PIM applications and frameworks, the KDE libraries, and to the Itemviews module in Qt itself. He is the maintainer of several Qt based libraries and applications for processing of text markup. He holds a BE in Mechanical Engineering and has spoken on Qt related topics at conferences. Languages: English |
| Sean Harmer | |
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Senior Software Engineer at KDAB. Sean has been developing with C++ and Qt since 1998 and in a commercial setting since 2002. He holds a Ph.D. in Astrophysics along with a Masters in Mathematics and Astrophysics. Sean has a broad range of experience and is keenly interested in scientific visualisation and animation using Qt and OpenGL. Languages: English |
| Tobias Koenig | |
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Software Engineer at KDAB. Tobias has actively developed with Qt since 2001 and has been an active KDE contributor for the same time. His contributions have been mainly to the KDE PIM project and the KDE libraries, but also, to some smaller extent, to other open source projects. He holds an MS in Computer Science. Languages: English |
