Ole Sæther
Principal R&D Engineer at Nordic Semiconductor ASA
Trondheim, Trøndelag, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolOle Sæther is a Principal R&D Engineer with over 30 years of embedded and systems software experience, currently driving IoT and BLE profile development at Nordic Semiconductor. He combines deep firmware expertise on ARM Cortex-M and nRF platforms with hands-on experience in HomeKit, Modbus TCP/IP, Linux DBus, and Windows native apps (C#, Visual C++, COM/DCOM). His open-source contributions to the nRF Connect SDK include FOTA samples and stability fixes in bootloader/SPM and partition management, reflecting a practical focus on reliability and security. Having held roles from software engineer to technical manager, he brings both low-level hardware understanding and system-level design judgment. Based in Trondheim with an MS.E.E. in Microelectronics, he also carries practical digital hardware experience that often informs elegant cross-domain solutions.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
English
Github Skills (10)
firmware10
nrf9110
embedded10
zephyr-rtos10
sys10
lte10
c-programming9
bootloader8
cprogramming-language7
c-language7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
nrfconnect/sdk-nrf
Mar 2019 - Dec 2022
nRF Connect SDK main repository
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:75 reviews, 43 commits, 57 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Ole contributed to the nRF Connect SDK, adding a sample for HTTP application updates on the nRF9160 platform, demonstrating expertise in firmware over-the-air (FOTA) updates using the download client library. They modified code related to LTE initialization, added a modem configuration function, and incorporated necessary header files. Moreover, the user addressed buffer overflows and other bugs in PCD and partition manager, improving code stability and reliability, with contributions in the bootloader and SPM (Secure Partition Manager) space.
nrf-connect-sdk
osaether/dbus-tsmppt
Sep 2016 - Jul 2019
Contributions:22 releases, 59 commits, 42 pushes in 2 years 10 months
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