Jerry Jacobs
Development Engineer Firmware Kern-level at Adimec Advanced Image Systems bv
Son en Breugel, North Brabant, Netherlands
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Top SchoolJerry Jacobs is a driven embedded systems engineer with 11 years’ experience designing and shipping low-level firmware for constrained, interconnected devices, currently focused on kernel-level firmware on Xilinx FPGA camera platforms at Adimec. He blends hands-on microcontroller and FPGA development with practical experience in Linux-based microservices and automated testing tools, and has built a GeniCAM interface code generator embedded in camera firmware. An active open-source contributor, he has improved tooling for STM32 programming (stlink) and helped shape Syncthing’s macOS client and docs, showing fluency across C, Go, Objective‑C/Swift and DevOps testing. Known for strong analytical thinking and a helicopter view, he pairs theoretical understanding with pragmatic delivery and adapts quickly to changing project requirements. Outside work he describes himself as “Development Engineer Firmware by day, Hacker at night,” reflecting a continual tinkering mindset that drives creative problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MBO Middenkader Telecommunications ICT Engineer, MBO Middenkader Telecommunications ICT Engineer at ROC LeeuwenborghBachelor degree, Bachelor degree at Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen
German, Dutch, English
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Github Skills (44)
apim10
objective-c10
filesystem10
api-design10
sphinx10
testing10
cortex-m10
cocoa10
data-sync10
rsync10
file-sharing10
go10
file-copy10
api10
embedded10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
syncthing/syncthing-macos
Jun 2016 - Jan 2023
Official frugal and native macOS Syncthing application bundle
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:84 releases, 11 reviews, 186 commits in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Jerry made initial contributions to the macOS Syncthing application, focusing on the implementation of Objective-C and Swift code. They added the core application structure, including the main application delegate, status item, and menu. The user implemented the foundational components for interacting with the Syncthing daemon through HTTP requests, managing preferences, and integrating with the operating system's user interface elements.
file-sharingpeer-to-peerbackupobjective-csynchronization
stlink-org/stlink
May 2016 - Aug 2019
Open source STM32 MCU programming toolset
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 1 review, 104 commits in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Jerry primarily contributed to the development of the stlink toolset by modifying and refactoring existing code, and adding support for new hardware. They rewrote warnings in the USB code to be more user-friendly and reorganized files by moving header files, converting documentation to markdown, and reorganizing source files. The user also added support for building the GUI with Travis CI on Linux and made several CMake improvements.
sdccstlinkstm32software-designlinux
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