Sebastian Draus
Firmware Engineer at Nordic Semiconductor ASA
Cracow Metropolitan Area Poland
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolSebastian Draus is a firmware engineer based in the Cracow metropolitan area with seven years of experience building low-level IoT and embedded systems, currently at Nordic Semiconductor. He specializes in Zigbee and nRF Connect SDK development, contributing notable enhancements like power-saving RAM management and Zigbee shell features, as well as integrating and modernizing the ZBOSS stack across Nordic’s common libraries. His work spans networking, security, commissioning, and hands-on bug fixes and cleanup, reflecting a pragmatic focus on reliable, production-ready firmware. Having developed satellite-grade systems at AGH Space Systems and progressed from internships to a core R&D role, he pairs academic training (MS/BS from AGH) with consistent open-source contributions that influence widely used Nordic repositories.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
AGH University
English, Polish, German
Github Skills (13)
c1710
memory-management10
embedded10
zigbee10
c1110
nrf-connect-sdk10
sys10
network-protocol10
security9
kconfig9
zephyr9
automations7
automation7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nrfconnect/sdk-nrf
May 2020 - Jan 2023
nRF Connect SDK main repository
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:324 reviews, 129 commits, 86 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Sebastian's contributions primarily focus on enhancing the nRF Connect SDK for Zigbee applications. They implemented features to manage power consumption, enabling the powering down of unused RAM sections. They also worked on the Zigbee shell, porting new ZDO commands and group management features. Furthermore, the user has addressed various bugs and performed code cleanup across multiple components of the SDK.
connect-sdknrf-connect-sdkinfinibandlteppp
nrfconnect/sdk-nrfxlib
Sep 2020 - May 2022
Nordic common libraries
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:18 reviews, 9 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Sebastian's contributions primarily involve modifying and updating the ZBOSS stack, a Zigbee protocol stack library. Their work includes integrating new versions of the ZBOSS stack, removing deprecated functionality, and adding experimental features. The changes frequently touch low-level networking, security, and commissioning aspects. The user is also responsible for managing the project's CHANGELOG file.
data-exchangenordic
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.