Olof Kraigher
Consultant At Kvadrat AB
Greater Linköping Metropolitan Area Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolOlof Kraigher is a seasoned software and embedded systems leader with 11 years of experience steering cross-disciplinary teams from low-level real-time FPGA/embedded design to cloud-connected web platforms. He has led software development and DevOps for a connected 3D printer product, architected and managed safety-critical ADAS firmware and FPGA groups, and driven real-time computer vision accelerator design and tooling. An advocate of test-driven development for hardware-oriented projects, he is a key contributor to VUnit—an open-source VHDL/SystemVerilog testing framework—used widely in FPGA development. Comfortable moving between hands-on engineering and team leadership, he combines academic rigor from Linköping University with practical delivery across startups and industrial R&D. Based in Linköping, Sweden, he thrives on simplifying complex systems while maintaining high quality in small, effective teams.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Vienna University of TechnologyMaster of Science in Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering Electronics Physics German, Master of Science in Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering Electronics Physics German at Linköping University
English, German, Swedish
Github Skills (8)
test-automation10
testing10
unit-testing10
test-framework10
unit-test10
vhdl10
systemverilog-hdl9
verilog9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
VUnit/vunit
Nov 2014 - Feb 2020
VUnit is a unit testing framework for VHDL/SystemVerilog
Role in this project:
Test Automation Engineer
Test Automation EngineerContributions:65 releases, 917 commits, 153 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Olof's commits focused on maintaining and improving the VUnit testing framework. Their work involved fixing bugs in existing tests related to incorrect test assertions and simulation output. They also improved test coverage by adding new tests and fixing bugs, specifically in the test scanning and code coverage functionalities. Furthermore, they enhanced the VUnit library by incorporating new features, such as dynamic test timeouts and string parsing.
asictesting-frameworkvhdltestingsystemverilog
VUnit/vc_uart
Jun 2015 - Apr 2018
Contributions:11 commits in 2 years 10 months
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