Kjeld Flarup
Linux Consultant at DEIF Wind Power Technology
Hjerm, Central Denmark Region, Denmark
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Top SchoolKjeld Flarup is a seasoned Linux consultant with nearly three decades of embedded systems and IT experience, including 19 years at Ericsson and leadership roles at Viptel before joining DEIF Wind Power Technology. He specializes in Linux migrations, board bring-up, porting legacy software, API conversions, and tooling/configuration management, consistently improving development workflows and maintainability. Kjeld pairs deep low-level expertise with practical DevOps instincts, having contributed to notable open-source projects like open62541 (OPC UA) and labgrid to enhance interoperability and embedded test control. Based in Hjerm, Denmark, he brings a pragmatic engineering style shaped by long-term product cycles and a knack for making complex systems simpler and more reliable.
8 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
master, Electical engineering & computer science, master, Electical engineering & computer science at Aalborg University
German, English
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Github Skills (29)
develop10
python10
open6254110
c1110
c1710
sys10
embedded10
automation-framework10
server10
opc-ua10
server-side10
command-line-interface9
industrial-automation9
openssl8
sdk8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
open62541/open62541
May 2020 - Jun 2022
Open source implementation of OPC UA (OPC Unified Architecture) aka IEC 62541 licensed under Mozilla Public License v2.0
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 7 PRs, 41 comments in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Kjeld contributed to the core functionality of the OPC UA implementation. Their commits focused on adding examples for manipulating timestamps, extending the logging system, and fixing compiler errors. They also addressed compatibility issues by removing const qualifiers. These contributions enhance the usability and functionality of the open62541 library.
iectsnlicensediec-62541opcua
labgrid-project/labgrid
Feb 2018 - Jul 2018
Embedded systems control library for development, testing and installation
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 9 PRs, 52 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Kjeld contributed to the `labgrid` project, focused on embedded systems control. They implemented features related to environment variable mapping in configuration files, enhancing flexibility. Further contributions included setting defaults for crossbar settings using environment variables, and adding a command-line argument for hostname configuration. They also added a new generic power driver with a REST API URL. Additionally, the user modified drivers to support command-line timeouts and non-UTF-8 character encodings.
testingcontrol-libraryinstallationtesting-and-developmentembedded-systems
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