Marcus Nilsson
Stockholm, Sweden
Summary
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RockstarMarcus Nilsson is an Embedded Software Engineer based in Stockholm with five years of hands-on experience targeting ARM Cortex-M/A platforms, embedded Linux, driver development, board bring-ups and PCB design. He combines low-level hardware know-how with practical software craftsmanship, regularly contributing to open-source projects in his spare time. On GitHub he’s contributed meaningful UI and refactor work to the notable SerenityOS project, improving PixelPaint with a generalized ValueSlider and cleaner tool property handling. Marcus is comfortable across firmware and system software boundaries, from kernel drivers to user-facing tooling, and pays attention to performance and maintainability in constrained environments. Colleagues would describe him as detail-oriented and curious, often bridging gaps between electronics and software during product bring-ups.
5 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (16)
cpp-library10
cpp10
lib10
clib10
front-end-development10
cplus10
c-libraries10
operating-system10
desktop10
browser7
asp-net6
dataannotations6
macos6
regula6
osdev6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
SerenityOS/serenity
May 2021 - Jul 2022
The Serenity Operating System 🐞
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:38 reviews, 111 commits, 70 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Marcus primarily contributed to the development of the SerenityOS's GUI library, specifically adding a generalized `ValueSlider` widget with text input and handling related user interactions. They integrated the new `ValueSlider` into the PixelPaint application, replacing existing UI elements. Furthermore, the user refactored the PixelPaint application by implementing a StackWidget for tool properties and made various improvements by tightening update rects and improving tool cursors. Additionally, the user made several bug fixes and enhancements across different parts of the codebase.
kernelunixbrowserserenityoperating-system
metmo/serenity
May 2021 - Aug 2022
The Serenity Operating System 🐞
Contributions:303 pushes, 114 branches in 1 year 3 months
kernelserenityoperating-systemlinuxoperating
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