AndriesĀ Kruithof
SW HW Developer at Lilaas AS
Horten, Vestfold og Telemark, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolAndries Kruithof is a pragmatic SW/HW developer with over 6 years of focused embedded systems experience and a long background in test and development engineering dating back to the 1990s. He has shipped firmware and platform software across audio and semiconductor domains, including roles at Nordic Semiconductor and IXION where he led R&D and worked on embedded Linux, U-Boot, Yocto, AOSP, Docker, and qemu workflows. An active contributor to the Zephyr RTOS, Andries has implemented and refined Bluetooth Low Energy controller features and updated audio codec tests, demonstrating deep protocol-level understanding of BLE and Bluetooth 5.4. Based in Horten, Norway, he blends hardware intuition with software craftsmanship and revision-control discipline to deliver robust, production-ready embedded solutions. Colleagues appreciate that he pairs seasoned test engineering instincts with modern open-source practices to bridge spec-level detail and product delivery.
6 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Electronics, MSc, Electronics at University of Twente
Dutch, English, Norwegian, German
Github Skills (13)
embedded10
bluetooth-le10
rtos10
sys10
bluetooth10
zephyr10
embedded-language9
testing8
microcontroller8
realtime8
c117
c177
iot6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr
Apr 2020 - Jul 2022
Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:1687 reviews, 71 commits, 176 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Andries primarily contributed to the Zephyr RTOS project by implementing and updating Bluetooth functionality, specifically focusing on Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and its controller features. Their commits involved updating unit tests for audio codecs and fixing conditional compilation issues within the Bluetooth host and controller code. The user also made changes to the Bluetooth controller's event length update and implemented version string updates for Bluetooth 5.4, showcasing a strong understanding of Bluetooth specifications and embedded systems development.
hardwarertosiotembeddedreal-time
abelsensors/zephyr
Apr 2020 - Mar 2022
Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.
Contributions:26 commits in 1 year 11 months
hardwarertos
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