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 (58)
ios10
android-adb10
mobile-development10
python10
firmware10
bluetooth-le10
android-sdk10
dfu10
ui-design10
batchfile10
android-development10
java10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
NordicSemiconductor/Android-nRF-Blinky
Nov 2017 - Jan 2023
nRF Blinky is an application developed targeting an audience of developers who are new to Bluetooth Low Energy
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:17 releases, 7 reviews, 260 commits in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Aleksander contributed to the development of an Android application, nRF Blinky, which aims to introduce developers to Bluetooth Low Energy. Their commits show modifications related to Android Studio project setup including Proguard rules and API level updates. Further commits show updates to the BlinkyManager and other activity classes, implementing Java 1.8 features, improvements to BLE event handling, nRF logger support, and UI adjustments, particularly related to screen rotation, and integrating the updated Android BLE Library.
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NordicSemiconductor/Android-Scanner-Compat-Library
Aug 2015 - Jun 2022
A compat library for Bluetooth Low Energy scanning on Android.
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:11 releases, 94 commits, 36 PRs in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Aleksander's primary contribution involves the creation of a compat library for Bluetooth Low Energy scanning on Android. The commits demonstrate the development of a ScanFilter class, crucial for filtering scan results. Further changes include enhancements to ScanSettings and adjustments to the BluetoothLeScannerCompat and BluetoothLeScannerImplJB classes, indicating a focus on improving Bluetooth LE scanning functionality and adapting to different Android versions.
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