Niklas Ekström
Allmän Behörighet AL Lågspänning , Byggledare Gatubelysning, Ljusdesigner
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolNiklas Ekström is an experienced electrical engineer and entrepreneur based in Stockholm, specializing in low-voltage certification, street lighting project management, and lighting design with over 30 years in the construction and electrotechnical sectors. As founder and CEO of Accendo projekt & design AB, he blends hands-on design (AutoCAD) and construction management with business development and consulting assignments. His background spans leadership of lighting departments at several firms, giving him deep expertise in public lighting systems and power supply engineering. Beyond consultancy, he contributes to embedded systems and open-source tooling—work on a 68k hardware emulator and a libgpiod JTAG driver shows practical low-level coding skills uncommon for a lighting specialist. He is known for translating complex technical requirements into buildable, auditable solutions while maintaining a pragmatic focus on negotiation and project delivery. Based in Stockholm, he brings a rare mix of field experience, technical depth, and firmware-level tinkering to large-scale lighting projects.
11 years of coding experience
Electrical engineer, Electrical power supply, Electrical engineer, Electrical power supply at Pauliskolan
Github Skills (14)
fpga10
c1710
memory-management10
raspberry10
gpio10
embedded10
c-language10
jtag10
c1110
cprogramming-language10
emulation10
sys10
autoconfiguration9
bitstream7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
trabucayre/openFPGALoader
May 2022 - Jul 2022
Universal utility for programming FPGA
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer
Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 6 commits, 1 PR in 2 months
Contributions summary:Niklas primarily contributed to the implementation of a libgpiod JTAG bitbang driver, indicated by the initial commit and subsequent bug fixes. This involved writing C++ code to interface with GPIO pins using the libgpiod library, enabling JTAG communication for FPGA programming. Additional changes involved parsing command-line arguments and refining the pin configuration for the JTAG interface.
vivadoxilinxlatticeintelfpga-programming
captain-amygdala/pistorm
Nov 2020 - Dec 2020
68k Hardware Emulator
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 3 days
Contributions summary:Niklas contributed to the development of a 68k hardware emulator, focusing on memory management and hardware interaction. They added code for autoconfiguration and A314 emulation, integrating features related to hardware communication. Further contributions included addressing code indentation issues and modifying memory access routines.
emulatorraspberry68kamigaemulation
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