Kjell Kernen
Project Manager at Scania Group
Greater Stockholm Metropolitan Area Sweden
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Top SchoolKjell Kernen is a seasoned software and delivery leader with over 12 years of formal experience and a multi-decade engineering background, currently serving as Project Manager at Scania in Greater Stockholm. He has progressed from hands-on software development to technical product management and senior leadership roles across industrial and transportation firms such as Bombardier Alstom and RSA, consistently bridging product strategy and engineering execution. Known for building and coaching distributed development teams, Kjell pairs an MSc in Computer Science from Linköping University with pragmatic, firmware-to-enterprise experience. He remains technically engaged—contributing bug fixes and GUI work to the popular OpenTX open-source firmware project—bringing an uncommon blend of low-level embedded insight and high-level product ownership.
12 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
Naturvetenskaplig Linje, Naturvetenskaplig Linje at DuveholmsskolanMSc Computer Science, MSc Computer Science at Linköping University
Github Skills (6)
firmware10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
front-end-development9
version-control9
git9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
opentx/opentx
Dec 2013 - Aug 2015
OpenTX custom firmware for Transmitters
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:389 commits, 6 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Kjell's commits focus on bug fixes and code changes within the "companion" directory, including changes to GUI and internal code, likely for a specific type of firmware. The commits demonstrate a focus on internal workings of the OpenTX firmware project, indicating a developer role who makes changes directly to the program.
firmwareopentxtransmitter
Dvogonen/cyclop_plus
Jun 2016 - Nov 2019
Firmware upgrade for Quanum Cyclops FPV googles that adds support for manual channel selection, external display and battery level alarm.
Contributions:106 commits, 3 PRs, 110 pushes in 3 years 5 months
external-displayfirmware
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