Mikko Parpala
Senior Staff R&D Engineer at Nordic Semiconductor
Liminka, Mainland Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolMikko Parpala is a Senior Staff R&D Engineer with over 15 years of deep expertise in multi-core real-time embedded systems and low-level software development. He combines intimate hardware knowledge—interrupt architectures, caches, DMAs, buses and peripherals—with strong skills in device drivers, memory management, RTOSs and bare-metal environments. His career spans telecom platforms and physical-layer modem software (3G/WCDMA/HSDPA) and includes roles from research prototyping to SoC software leadership at Nokia and Nordic Semiconductor. Comfortable in Linux-based toolchains and modern CI/DevOps practices, he routinely tackles the hardest HW/SW integration and debugging challenges. Colleagues rely on him for optimizing complex systems across compilers, linkers and debuggers as well as for pragmatic software architecture choices. Based in Liminka, Finland, he brings a rare blend of academic research experience and production-grade telecom engineering.
1 year of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Oulu
English, Finnish, Swedish, German
Github Skills (10)
opc10
sdk10
playfab10
lte10
nordicsemi9
hal9
labview9
ppp9
infiniband9
nrf-connect-sdk5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mparpala/suit-generator
Oct 2024 - Dec 2024
Contributions:7 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
mparpala/sdk-nrf
Oct 2024 - Nov 2024
nRF Connect SDK main repository
Contributions:3 pushes in 15 days
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