Damian Nikodem
Audio DSP Firmware Engineer at Intel Corporation
Gdańsk, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
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Top SchoolDamian Nikodem is an Audio DSP Firmware Engineer with seven years of embedded and firmware experience, currently working at Intel in Gdańsk. He combines low-level firmware development and hardware bring-up—shaping audio subsystems and drivers—with prior UEFI firmware and validation roles that honed his systems-level debugging skills. An active contributor to high-profile open-source projects like Sound Open Firmware and Zephyr, he has improved IPC4 firmware interfaces and refactored Intel SSP drivers to support multiple ACE platforms. His background in electrical engineering and automation, plus hands-on experience with audio-visual electronics, gives him a rare blend of firmware, hardware, and system integration expertise. Colleagues rely on him for cleaning up complex build processes and adapting platform-specific code for broader reuse.
6 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Technik, Elektronik systemów audio-wizualnych, Technik, Elektronik systemów audio-wizualnych at Technikum Elektroniczne w BydgoszczySzkołaMagister Inżynier, Automatyka i Systemy Sterowania, Magister Inżynier, Automatyka i Systemy Sterowania at Politechnika GdańskaMaster of Science (M.S.), Electrical Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.), Electrical Engineering at Blekinge Institute of Technology
Polish, English, German
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Github Skills (28)
dspic10
firmware10
embedded-language10
c1110
microcontroller10
zephyr10
c1710
audio10
device-tree10
rtos10
sys10
embedded10
dspace10
iot9
build-system8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr
Sep 2022 - Nov 2024
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:44 reviews, 17 PRs, 27 comments in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Damian primarily contributes to the Zephyr RTOS project, focusing on the Intel SSP (Serial Sound Port) driver. Their work involves refactoring the SSP driver to support dynamic management of SSP IP and adapting it for different Intel platforms, specifically ACE15, ACE20, and ACE30. The contributions also include adding support for new hardware versions by updating memory definitions and device tree configurations. The user's work impacts the audio subsystem and low-level hardware interaction.
bluetooth-lereal-timezephyrsecuregit-repository
thesofproject/sof
Aug 2022 - Sep 2022
Sound Open Firmware
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:114 reviews, 6 commits, 33 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Damian primarily contributed to the Sound Open Firmware project by modifying low-level firmware code and build processes. Their work included removing obsolete properties from the IPC4 interface, updating mailbox macros, and cleaning up include files related to the firmware's internal registers. They also modified the build scripts to include the SOF build version within the rimage manifest and removed platform-specific trace point functionality for the new IPC4 layout.
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