Christian Wilgaard
Application Group Manager
Trondheim, Trøndelag, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Wilgaard is an experienced embedded systems and applications leader with 10 years at Nordic Semiconductor, now serving as Application Group Manager in Trondheim. He progressed from R&D engineer and summer developer of an iPhone-controlled BLE helicopter to team lead and interim management roles, blending deep hands-on firmware expertise with people and project leadership. His background in industrial instrumentation and electronics gives him a systems-first approach to designing reliable wireless products and test infrastructures. Known for pragmatic problem solving, he has a history of building custom test rigs and protocol sniffers that uncover hard-to-find issues before product release. Christian combines technical depth with operational stewardship, guiding teams to deliver robust Bluetooth Low Energy solutions at scale.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master Industrial Instrumentation, Master Industrial Instrumentation at Sør-Trøndelag University College (HiST)
English
Github Skills (103)
controller10
lte10
windows10
bluetooth10
embedded10
javascript10
snap10
linux10
sdk10
playfab10
opc10
python-logging10
ppp10
logger10
hardware10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
wlgrd/thingy52_homeassistant
Nov 2017 - May 2021
Contributions:10 commits, 5 PRs, 8 pushes in 3 years 7 months
wlgrd/fw-nrfconnect-nrf
Mar 2019 - Aug 2021
nRF Connect SDK nrf tree
Contributions:2 PRs, 44 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 5 months
connect-sdknrf-connect-sdksdksdk-nrfnrf
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