Lars-ove Karlsson
Senior Systems Engineer at IAR Systems
Greater Uppsala Metropolitan Area Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolLars-ove Karlsson is a Senior Systems Engineer with over three decades at IAR Systems and six years of focused software engineering experience, specializing in embedded systems and toolchain integration. He holds an MSc in Computer Engineering from Luleå tekniska universitet and combines deep low-level expertise with practical experience in RTOS portability. His open-source contributions to the Zephyr Project highlight a knack for solving compiler-specific issues, improving linker scripts, and hardening math routines for the IAR toolchain. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he bridges vendor toolchains and upstream open-source projects to make embedded software more portable and robust. Based in the Greater Uppsala area, he brings institutional knowledge of embedded toolchains and a continual drive to reduce undefined behavior across architectures.
6 years of coding experience
MSc, Computer Engineering, MSc, Computer Engineering at Luleå tekniska universitetSCRUM Master-kurs
Github Skills (11)
c1710
embedded-language10
rtos10
c1110
microcontroller10
zephyr10
cmake9
compiler-optimization8
assembly6
assemble6
assembler6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr
Feb 2024 - Apr 2025
Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:19 reviews, 25 PRs, 40 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Lars-ove primarily focused on improving code portability and fixing compiler-related issues within the Zephyr RTOS project. They addressed issues related to casting, stack protection, and undefined behavior in math routines, specifically targeting the IAR compiler. Furthermore, the user made changes to the linker script and added warning macros for IAR, showing a strong understanding of toolchain-specific configurations and embedded system development practices.
bluetooth-lereal-timezephyrsecuregit-repository
iarsystems/zephyr-iar
Mar 2025 - Apr 2025
Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.
Contributions:27 pushes, 4 branches in 21 days
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