Aksel Hjerpbakk
Senior Software Engineer at Arm
Trondheim, Trøndelag, Norway
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Top SchoolAksel Hjerpbakk is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience in low-level programming and graphics driver development, currently contributing to Arm’s open-source Mali driver in Mesa. He holds a Master’s in Informatics from NTNU and has a strong background in systems and full-stack development from time at the National Library of Norway. Aksel is an active open-source contributor—most notably improving memory management, job systems, and ImGui bindings in the zig-gamedev ecosystem—and enjoys digging into bits and programming languages. He combines academic rigor (master’s thesis work) with production driver engineering, making him comfortable across both research-grade code and performance-critical, real-world systems.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Communication and Media Studies, High School, Communication and Media Studies at Mjølan videregående skoleNorwegian University of Science and Technology
English, Norwegian
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Github Skills (16)
zig10
game-development10
lib10
pagination9
testing8
opengl7
directx7
windows6
angular-material6
rust6
cross-platform6
unity-game-engine6
angular-cdk6
compute-shader6
angular6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
zig-gamedev/zig-gamedev
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Dev repo for @zig-gamedev libs and sample applications
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 review, 8 commits, 16 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Aksel primarily contributed to the `zig-gamedev` repository by modifying and extending the `ztracy`, `zjobs`, and `zgui` libraries. They fixed bugs related to memory management in `ztracy` and implemented new features, such as adding input characters and exposing ImGui functionalities in `zgui`. Moreover, they improved the `zjobs` library by resolving compile issues and adding tests for job combination features.
simdvulkanbullet-physicsziggame-engine
Avokadoen/tetris_wasm
Jan 2020 - Sep 2020
Tetris implemented in rust and targetting wasm
Contributions:48 commits, 2 PRs, 49 pushes in 7 months
rustjavascriptwebassemblyrust-langwasm
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