Aleksander Nowakowski
Research And Development Engineering Manager at Nordic Semiconductor
Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
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Top SchoolAleksander Nowakowski is a Research and Development Engineering Manager with 12 years of hands-on experience building and leading mobile and embedded engineering teams, currently based in Trondheim after a long career in Warsaw. He rose through roles at Nordic Semiconductor from Senior R&D Engineer to Mobile Apps Team Lead and now manages R&D efforts focused on Bluetooth Low Energy and DFU tooling. Aleksander combines deep Android and iOS expertise—contributing to widely used open-source projects like Nordic’s Android BLE, DFU, Mesh and nRF Toolbox libraries—with practical firmware and Python tooling work on nrfutil. He is equally comfortable shipping production mobile apps, building compatibility layers for varied Android versions, and improving OTA firmware update processes across platforms. His background includes automated DFU test development and a pragmatic engineering management style that bridges developer tools, QA automation and low-level wireless protocols. Trained at Warsaw University of Technology with an Erasmus stint in Lund, he brings both academic rigor and cross-border collaboration experience to product-focused R&D.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Computer Information System Engineering, Master of Science Computer Information System Engineering at Warsaw University of TechnologyErasmus Scholarship Computer Engineering, Erasmus Scholarship Computer Engineering at The Faculty of Engineering at Lund University
Polish, English, Norwegian
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Github Skills (57)
ios10
android-adb10
mobile-development10
python10
firmware10
bluetooth-le10
android-sdk10
dfu10
ui-design10
batchfile10
android-development10
java10
android-developer10
compatibility10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
nordicsemi/Android-nRF-Toolbox
Feb 2015 - May 2020
The nRF Toolbox is a container app that stores your Nordic Semiconductor apps for Bluetooth Low Energy in one location.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:41 releases, 1 review, 279 commits in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Aleksander contributed to the Nordic Semiconductor Android nRF Toolbox application, specifically focusing on implementing features within the RSC, CSC, HTS, CGMS profiles. The user added unit settings and implemented new features. The user also worked on the UI and integrating new features, while also adding code to handle the DFU process. The user addressed bugs in the glucose profile and other features.
bluetooth-low-energy
nordicsemi/Android-nRF-Connect
Dec 2014 - Dec 2022
Documentation and issue tracker for nRF Connect for Android.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:63 releases, 76 commits, 7 PRs in 8 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Aleksander's contributions center on the addition and modification of automated tests within the Android nRF Connect project. The primary focus is on testing DFU (Device Firmware Update) functionality, with the creation of test scripts, and the inclusion of firmware images for various SDK versions. The changes indicate a strong emphasis on expanding the test suite and ensuring the application's reliability, especially concerning device updates across different hardware and software configurations. The user interacts with batch scripts and Android Debug Bridge (adb) commands, demonstrating a focus on automating testing procedures.
androidnrf-connect
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