Bjarki Andreasen is a research and development engineer specializing in embedded firmware with four years of experience building telematics and IoT systems. He is an active Zephyr RTOS contributor and maintainer, notably driving the modem (cellular and GNSS) and RTC subsystems and adding drivers and APIs that improve real-time clock and cellular modem support. Before joining Nordic Semiconductor he developed firmware and supported hardware design at Trackunit, pairing hands-on embedded software with practical electronics know-how from his electrical engineering studies. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who treats software as the best team sport, evident in his collaborative open-source work on one of the leading RTOS projects. Less obvious: he combines low-level driver development with higher-level protocol integrations, making him fluent across the firmware stack from device peripherals to modem communication.
3 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Aarhus University
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
Contributions:2249 reviews, 209 PRs, 8 pushes in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Bjarki primarily contributed to the Zephyr RTOS project by implementing and refining various embedded system drivers. Their work focused on integrating features for real-time clocks (RTCs) and cellular modem communication. This included adding an RTC API with helper functions and tests, and implementing improvements to the modem pipelinks and at shell. Additionally, the user developed drivers for the Bosch BMI323 sensor, and for a new generic cellular modem driver, enhancing the project's support for hardware and communication.
NCS downstream of https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr
Contributions:3 PRs, 200 pushes, 36 branches in 7 months
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Bjarki Andreasen - Research And Development Engineer at Nordic Semiconductor