Sean Nyekjær
Embedded Linux Consultant at Geanix
Aarhus, Central Denmark Region
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Nyekjær is an Embedded Linux consultant with 11 years of hands-on experience bringing up boards and building BSPs across ARM and x86 SoCs, fluent in Yocto/OpenEmbedded, U-Boot, Linux kernel, C and Rust. He combines hardware-level insight with low-level kernel and driver development, having delivered solutions for connected cars, robotics, storage and embedded RTOS environments. A regular open-source contributor, Sean has contributed device tree, timer and peripheral fixes to the widely used Zephyr RTOS and to upstream kernel and U-Boot projects. He is experienced in real-time investigation on Linux, FreeRTOS/Zephyr integration, and embedded driver work for production products. Based in Aarhus, Denmark, he blends consultancy agility with deep platform expertise, often translating hardware specs into robust software stacks. Beyond code, Sean’s background in electronics gives him an edge diagnosing issues that span silicon, bootloader and OS layers.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Electronics, Bachelor, Electronics at Engineering College of Aarhus
English
Github Skills (20)
uart10
directmemory10
dma10
embedded-language10
linux-kernel10
microcontroller10
zephyr10
device-tree10
rtos10
sys10
can-bus10
embedded10
stm10
c-programming9
pwm9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr
Jan 2018 - Nov 2024
Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:1 review, 17 PRs, 73 comments in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Sean primarily contributed to the Zephyr RTOS, focusing on device tree updates for STM32MP1 series processors. Their work involved adding and configuring timers and reading clock divider registers. They also addressed a bug related to timer initialization and made minor improvements to the pwm, mipi_dsi, serial, and counter drivers. Additionally, the user added support for a new CAN FD adapter board.
bluetooth-lereal-timezephyrsecuregit-repository
sknsean/zephyr
Oct 2017 - Nov 2024
Primary GIT Repository for the Zephyr Project
Contributions:99 pushes, 22 branches in 7 years 2 months
git-repositoryversion-controlzephyr
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