Leif Ekblad
Embedded Software Developer at CODAB
Skåne County, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolLeif Ekblad is an embedded software developer with 20 years of experience building low-level systems and real-time applications from Skåne County, Sweden. With an MSc in Electronics from Lunds tekniska högskola, he has a long track record at organizations ranging from meteorological systems at SMHI to payment solutions at Logos Payment Solutions AB. He brings deep C/embedded expertise and systems-level debugging skills, demonstrated by significant contributions to the open-watcom project where he improved RDOS kernel APIs, low-level file I/O, debugger stability and networking. Comfortable across hardware-near software and backend systems, Leif combines pragmatic problem-solving with a focus on reliability and performance. He remains active in legacy and real-time codebases, a sign of both patience and curiosity for complex, long-lived systems.
20 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Electronics, Master of Science (MSc), Electronics at Lunds tekniska högskola
English
Github Skills (12)
c1710
assembly10
system-programming10
c1110
operating-system10
fileio9
file-access9
debug9
file-processing9
file-handling9
debugging9
networking8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
open-watcom/open-watcom-v2
Feb 2014 - Nov 2022
Open Watcom V2.0 - Source code repository, Wiki, Latest Binary build, Archived builds including all installers for download.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Systems Engineer
Back-end Developer & Systems EngineerContributions:124 commits, 140 pushes, 186 comments in 8 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Leif primarily focused on enhancing and debugging the RDOS (Real-time Disk Operating System) components of the Open Watcom project. Their contributions included implementing new kernel API calls, improving the low-level file I/O operations, and addressing issues within the debugger for RDOS. They also integrated and fixed the networking code within the RDOS environment, and improved the overall stability and performance of the system.
installersbuildscode-repositorywatcomwiki
open-watcom/owp4v1copy
Feb 2010 - Aug 2013
Git copy of Open Watcom V1 Perforce branch
Contributions:167 commits in 3 years 6 months
perforceopen-watcomwatcom
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