Jarkko Nikula
Senior Firmware Engineer at Eaton
Espoo, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolJarkko Nikula is a Senior Firmware Engineer based in Espoo, Finland with 14+ years of hands-on experience in embedded Linux, device drivers and low-level hardware bring-up. He has a proven track record delivering production code to customers and upstreaming drivers into the Linux kernel, including long-term maintainership of I2C DesignWare and other host controller drivers. His background spans big-platform kernel work at Intel, hardware adaptation at Jolla and years of product-focused engineering dating back to Nokia and early embedded startups, plus founding his own company Bitmer. Comfortable across presilicon enabling, U-Boot/Buildroot flows, Debian integration and electronics tooling, he combines deep kernel internals expertise with practical HW bring-up skills. Notably, he continues to review and shepherd patches upstream, reflecting both technical depth and sustained open-source stewardship.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc, Electrical Engineering, B.Sc, Electrical Engineering at Pohjois-Savo PolytechnicM.Sc.(Tech), Computer Science, M.Sc.(Tech), Computer Science at Aalto University School of Science and Technology
Github Skills (13)
i2c10
kernel10
embedded10
driver10
spi10
linux-kernel10
sys10
kernel-mode10
pci9
plugin-development8
package-development8
acpi8
drupal-module8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jhnikula/fs_visualize
Feb 2013 - Mar 2022
Contributions:32 commits, 9 pushes in 9 years 2 months
visualizingfilesystemblock-device
jhnikula/linux
Feb 2015 - Oct 2024
Contributions:28 pushes, 10 branches in 9 years 10 months
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