Kjetil Østerås
Associate Staff Software Engineer
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolKjetil Østerås is an Associate Staff Software Engineer based in Oslo with 13 years of professional experience spanning embedded systems, systems programming and UI development. He holds a master's in Computer Software Engineering and Programming Languages and has deep practical expertise in C/C++ and systems-level work, including porting Linux to embedded targets. At Silicon Labs he progressed from Senior to Associate Staff Engineer, focusing on challenging low-level design and implementation tasks—areas he’s long been passionate about, especially compiler and systems design. His background ranges from broadcast R&D and real-time embedded products to Java-based tooling and build systems, reflecting a talent for bridging high-level application needs with low-level constraints. Colleagues describe him as someone drawn to complex problems who enjoys crafting robust, efficient solutions rather than one-off fixes.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering and Programming languages, Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering and Programming languages at Universitetet i Oslo (UiO)Allmenne, økonomiske og administrative fag, Allmenne, økonomiske og administrative fag at Ås Videregående skoleGuelph Collegiate Vocational Intitute
English, Norwegian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (50)
memory-efficient9
serializer9
json-parser9
java9
serialization9
flatbuffers9
mmap9
protobuf9
binary-data9
rust8
grpc8
gnu8
python8
cross-platform8
rpc8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kjetilos/art-of-programming
Mar 2014 - Mar 2018
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes in 4 years 1 month
kjetilos/ethernet-expansion
Aug 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 1 year 11 months
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