Jørn Hofstad
Senior Programvareutviklingsingeniør at Sopra Steria
Trondheim, Trøndelag, Norway
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Top SchoolJørn Hofstad is a Senior Programvareutviklingsingeniør based in Trondheim with eight years of hands-on experience building and testing cross-platform tooling in Rust, C++ and Python. Currently finishing a master's in Cybernetics and Robotics at NTNU, he combines strong embedded and systems expertise with CI/CD and test automation skills honed at Nordic Semiconductor, where he built hardware-backed test frameworks, Docker images and internal registries. He has practical experience optimizing async Rust tooling for significant performance gains and maintained the widely used pc-nrfutil project, contributing Python compatibility and test fixes. Comfortable in both low-level firmware and higher-level infrastructure, Jørn also teaches real-time and control courses, reflecting a knack for explaining complex technical concepts. He’s pragmatic, detail-oriented and skilled at turning device-level constraints into reliable developer tooling.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange semester, Informatics, Exchange semester, Informatics at École Polytechnique Fédérale de LausanneNorwegian University of Science and Technology
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Github Skills (8)
python10
testing10
git9
cicd7
json6
sys5
embedded5
btle4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
NordicSemiconductor/pc-nrfutil
Feb 2021 - Sep 2022
nrfutil python library and command line client
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 9 reviews, 113 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Jørn primarily focused on maintaining and improving the `pc-nrfutil` library. Their contributions included updating the Python version support and fixing setup configurations. The user also addressed test-related issues and merged updates from other branches, showing their involvement in overall project maintenance and integration. Additionally, the user made a small modification to error messages.
python-librarypythonpython3cli
NordicSemiconductor/pc-ble-driver-py
Feb 2021 - Jul 2022
Python bindings for the ble-driver library
Contributions:4 releases, 20 reviews, 302 commits in 1 year 4 months
python-bindingspythonble
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