Bjørn Hanssen
Senior R&D Engineering Manager at Nordic Semiconductor
Trondheim, Trøndelag, Norway
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Top SchoolBjørn Hanssen is a Senior R&D Engineering Manager in Trondheim with 12 years of experience leading software tools teams at Nordic Semiconductor, delivering cross‑platform desktop and CLI applications for wireless product development. He combines hands‑on expertise in C/C++, Python, C#, and JavaScript with deep Bluetooth Low Energy and embedded DFU experience—having contributed notable fixes and transport improvements to the widely used nrfutil DFU tool. As a former scrum master and team lead, he pairs technical ownership with delivery responsibility and mentoring across Windows, Linux and macOS toolchains. His background in telecom and firmware tooling gives him a practical bias for reliable, customer-facing developer tools that bridge desktop apps and constrained embedded devices.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Norwegian, English, German
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Github Skills (10)
firmware10
embedded10
dfu10
sys10
python10
nordicsemi10
btle9
ant9
serial-communication9
iot9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
NordicSemiconductor/pc-nrfutil
May 2016 - Aug 2021
nrfutil python library and command line client
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 6 reviews, 138 commits in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Bjørn primarily contributed to the `nrfutil` project, which is a Python library for device firmware updates (DFU) on Nordic Semiconductor devices. Their work involved modifying the library to support updates for the SoftDevice, improving the handling of little-endian byte order in package signatures, and merging various code branches. Additionally, the user made improvements to DFU transport, including BLE, ANT and serial, with data length updates and improved serial connection handling, including timeout configurations.
python-librarypythonpython3cli
NordicSemiconductor/pc-nrfconnect-ble
Sep 2015 - Apr 2022
Bluetooth low energy app for nRF Connect for Desktop
Contributions:5 reviews, 317 commits, 15 PRs in 6 years 8 months
bluetoothblebluetooth-low-energydesktopenergy
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