Sebastian Bøe
Software Engineer at Nordic Semiconductor
Trondheim, Trøndelag, Norway
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Top SchoolSebastian Bøe is a software engineer with 14 years of embedded systems and low-level firmware experience, currently developing test firmware for Nordic Semiconductor’s IC-development team. He combines hands-on C firmware work with hardware-focused responsibilities, having started as an HW verification engineer and progressed into system-level SDK and RTOS contributions. Sebastian is an active open-source contributor to Zephyr and the nRF Connect SDK, improving support for Nordic nRF54L15 hardware, TF-M integration, and build-system portability. He also maintains TurboRav, an FPGA-synthesizable open-source SoC that showcases his commitment to free-toolchain-based hardware design using Chisel, Yosys, and a RISC-V toolchain. Based in Trondheim, he blends academic training from NTNU with practical industry experience across Nordic Semiconductor and earlier roles at Texas Instruments and Sportradar. Notably, his work often sits at the intersection of tooling, build systems, and hardware bring-up—areas where subtle build or mapping fixes materially improve reliability.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitetSandefjord videregående skole
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Github Skills (37)
embedded-language10
cmake10
c1110
microcontroller10
zephyr10
security10
c1710
iot10
rtos10
device-driver10
sys10
embedded10
nrf-connect-sdk10
documentation10
bootloader9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
nrfconnect/sdk-nrf
Aug 2018 - Jan 2023
nRF Connect SDK main repository
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:1069 reviews, 109 commits, 459 PRs in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Sebastian primarily contributed to the nRF Connect SDK, focusing on low-level system and hardware-related tasks. Their work involved migrating build scripts, configuring partitions, and addressing core system issues, such as managing memory protection in TF-M and supporting the new Zephyr revision. They also worked on hardware related support such as fixing UART configuration, enabling the use of the CRACEN peripheral, and updating settings for the hardware RNG. Several commits include documentation improvements.
nrf-connect-sdk
nrfconnect/sdk-nrfxlib
Sep 2018 - Jan 2022
Nordic common libraries
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:167 reviews, 18 commits, 61 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Sebastian primarily contributed to the Nordic nRF Connect SDK's nrfxlib, a library of common components. Their work involved adapting build scripts to support alternative build environments by modifying CMakeLists files, and refactoring core build logic. Furthermore, the user addressed documentation issues, including those related to toolchain compatibility and inlining documentation, and made core code changes related to the underlying platform for power management.
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