Ola Nilsson
Experienced Software Engineer at Axis Communications
Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolOla Nilsson is an experienced software engineer with 11+ years building embedded and mobile systems, currently advancing platform and build engineering at Axis Communications. He brings deep expertise in Yocto/OpenEmbedded/Bitbake, Linux build systems, and low-level C and Python work—skills reinforced by contributions to high-profile open-source projects such as openembedded-core, bitbake and the rust libc bindings. His background spans hardware bring-up, porting WebKit to embedded platforms, and maintaining complex client-server and mobile stacks from Symbian-era devices to modern embedded Linux. Ola pairs pragmatic automation and configuration-management instincts with attention to resource-safe code (e.g., refactors that improve file handling and symlink management), and he’s comfortable navigating both build-system internals and platform-specific ABI tweaks.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Radar Station Field Engineer, Radar Station Field Engineer at Arméns Tekniska Skola / Army Technical SchoolM.Sc, Computer Science and Engineering, M.Sc, Computer Science and Engineering at The Faculty of Engineering at Lund University
Swedish, English
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Github Skills (24)
libc10
system-programming10
python10
bitbake10
linux10
resource-management10
build-automation10
file-handling10
rust10
openembedded10
mips10
scripting9
testing9
sys9
automated-tests9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
rust-lang/libc
Mar 2023 - Aug 2025
Raw bindings to platform APIs for Rust
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 reviews, 11 PRs, 62 comments in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Ola primarily contributed to low-level system programming within the libc repository. Their work focused on defining and adapting system-level structures and constants, particularly related to Linux and MIPS architectures. They modified code to support `__USE_TIME_BITS64`, which involves updating time-related data structures and constants for 32-bit systems. The user also added configurations and constants related to socket options.
rust
openembedded/openembedded-core
Aug 2016 - Dec 2022
The official Git repository is at https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/.
Role in this project:Back-end & Automation Engineer
Back-end & Automation EngineerContributions:38 commits in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Ola contributed to the OpenEmbedded core repository by modifying and adding tests to the devtool and recipetool utilities. Their changes primarily focused on improving the functionality of these tools, specifically related to plugin loading, and handling of external source trees. The contributions involved refactoring the build system and enhancing the reliability of the build process through the addition of test cases. Furthermore, the user made adjustments to the externalsrc class, including adding a buildclean task and improving the handling of symlinks.
openembedded
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