Nikolaj Østerbye
Senior Embedded Software Engineer at GN Group
Ringsted, Region Zealand, Denmark
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Top SchoolNikolaj Østerbye is a Senior Embedded Software Engineer with 10+ years of hands-on experience making hardware and software function as a unified platform across consumer products, robotics, and safety-critical systems. He has led firmware architecture and electronic architecture decisions for products like diving cameras and vertical-surface cleaning robots, and has practical experience implementing IEC 61508 functional safety processes and CI pipelines (MISRA C checks, custom Docker Bitbucket pipes). Comfortable managing distributed teams, he has co-founded and exited startups, run embedded teams, and driven end-to-end delivery from component selection to production firmware. Based in Ringsted, Denmark, he blends deep low-level debugging expertise from earlier Nokia device work with modern DevOps practices, bringing a pragmatic, systems-thinking approach to embedded product development.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Banting Memorial High SchoolTechnical University of DenmarkHTX, Electronics, HTX, Electronics at Frederiksberg Tekniske Gymnasium
Danish, English
Github Skills (1)
controlling7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
osterbye/libm8
Jun 2020 - Feb 2022
Qt library for controlling u-blox M8 GNSS modules
Contributions:14 commits, 4 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 year 8 months
u-bloxcontrollinggnssbloxqt-library
osterbye/mbed-os
Apr 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
kernelmbed-osoperating-systemlinuxmbed
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