Jun Zou
Senior Staff R&D Engineer at Nordic Semiconductor
Minato, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolJun Zou is a Senior Staff R&D Engineer with nine years at Nordic Semiconductor and a 20+-year background in mobile and embedded communications, specializing in cellular and non-cellular IoT, BLE Mesh, ZigBee, Thread, and GNSS integration. He blends deep firmware and networking expertise—evidenced by low-level nRF91 work in the widely used nRF Connect SDK, adding multi-protocol IP support, FOTA flash management, and a TFTP client—into Zephyr-based IoT application development. Jun’s career traces hands-on roles from modem physical-layer software and virtual platform testing at Ericsson to application and customer engineering across ST-Ericsson and embedded platforms, giving him rare end-to-end insight from silicon to cloud protocols like LwM2M and MQTT. Colleagues rely on him for carrier certification and complex MNO IoT integrations as well as pragmatic, field-proven solutions for constrained devices. Based in Minato, Japan, he balances technical rigor with personal discipline—an avid hiker who brings methodical problem-solving and integrity to product engineering.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science and Engineering at Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyMaster of Science - MS, Communication Software & Networks, Master of Science - MS, Communication Software & Networks at Nanyang Technological University Singapore
Chinese, English, Japanese
Github Skills (6)
iot10
embedded10
embedded-software10
zephyr-rtos10
nrf-connect-sdk10
iot-devkit10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nrfconnect/sdk-nrf
Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
nRF Connect SDK main repository
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:771 reviews, 184 commits, 246 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Jun primarily contributed to the low-level firmware development for an nRF91 series device, specifically within the nRF Connect SDK. Their work involved enhancing the Serial LTE Modem (SLM) sample by adding features like support for multiple protocol families (IPv4 and IPv6), the ability to erase and update flash memory with FOTA images, and the implementation of a TFTP client. The user demonstrated expertise in networking by developing and managing various TCP/IP functionalities and integrating these changes into the underlying Zephyr OS framework.
connect-sdknrf-connect-sdkinfinibandlteppp
junqingzou/zephyr
Aug 2019 - Apr 2023
Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.
Contributions:14 pushes, 11 branches in 3 years 8 months
architecturesscalablegit-repositorysecurereal-time
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