Arne Fredheim
Research Director at SINTEF Ocean
Trondheim, Trøndelag, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolArne Fredheim is a research director specializing in energy and transport at SINTEF Ocean with a deep academic foundation as an Adjunct Professor in marine technology at NTNU and a PhD in marine hydrodynamics. With SINTEF tenure since 1996, he has led large research programs and innovation centers—most notably directing the CREATE SFI for aquaculture technology—and progressed through roles from hands-on research to strategic leadership. He combines practical field experience (including early engineering work with Schlumberger) with program-level management of testing infrastructure and industry collaborations. Arne also contributes to open-source projects related to media and embedded systems, applying his automation and build/release expertise to well-known repositories like Kodi/OpenELEC. Known for bridging rigorous hydrodynamics research with applied aquaculture and maritime technology, he brings a rare blend of academic depth and operational delivery.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitetNorwegian University of Science and Technology
Github Skills (14)
dependency-management10
openelec10
build-system10
c-language10
cmake10
cprogramming-language10
ffmpeg10
kodi10
graphic9
multimedia9
stereo8
opengl8
python5
xml4
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
xbmc/xbmc
Dec 2015 - Oct 2018
Kodi is an award-winning free and open source home theater/media center software and entertainment hub for digital media. With its beautiful interface and powerful skinning engine, it's available for Android, BSD, Linux, macOS, iOS, tvOS and Windows.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 305 comments in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Arne contributed to the Kodi media center project by addressing various issues and implementing new features. They fixed a logging credential issue in the FFmpeg core and ensured protocol checks utilized dynamic URLs. The user also added a wrapper for setting properties for Python list items, expanding the API functionality. Furthermore, they integrated the libfstrcmp library for string comparison within the project.
pythonentertainmentc-plus-plusiosmultimedia
OpenELEC/OpenELEC.tv
May 2015 - May 2015
OpenELEC - The living room PC for everyone
Role in this project:Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:15 commits in 6 days
Contributions summary:Arne's contributions primarily focus on adding and updating packages and dependencies within the OpenELEC project. This includes bumping versions for existing add-ons, such as audio decoders, and integrating new components like screensavers and graphics libraries (e.g., SOIL, GLFW, vsxu). Their work involves modifications to package definition files (`package.mk`), suggesting an active role in maintaining build configurations and managing dependencies for the OpenELEC operating system. The commits also reveal adjustments to build and installation processes, ensuring the proper integration of these components.
vmsliving-roomxbmclinuxroom
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