Simen Røstad
Senior R&D Engineer at Nordic Semiconductor
Trondheim, Trøndelag, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolSimen Røstad is a Senior R&D Engineer based in Trondheim with seven years of hands-on experience building embedded systems and IoT solutions at Nordic Semiconductor. He specializes in nRF91-series development, having extended modem functionality, implemented AT-notification features, and integrated AWS IoT and nRF Cloud for robust asset-tracking applications. His work shows a strong focus on reliable state handling, FOTA workflows, batched telemetry, and pragmatic cloud-device coordination that bridge low-level modem behavior with scalable cloud services. Progressing from intern and part-time roles into senior R&D responsibilities, he combines academic training in embedded systems design (NTNU) with production-grade firmware engineering. Notably, he contributes to the widely used nRF Connect SDK, demonstrating an ability to improve platform capabilities that benefit a broad IoT developer community. Colleagues would describe him as a detail-oriented engineer who thinks across hardware, firmware, and cloud boundaries to deliver resilient connected products.
7 years of coding experience
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Github Skills (14)
mqtt10
embedded10
zephyr-rtos10
sys10
mqttnet10
aws-iot10
c119
c179
json8
tcp7
networking7
network7
net7
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nrfconnect/sdk-nrf
Oct 2019 - Dec 2022
nRF Connect SDK main repository
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:1675 reviews, 318 commits, 351 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Simen's contributions primarily revolve around the development of an asset tracking application built on the nRF9160 platform. They extended the modem's functionality by adding support for features like %XT3412 and %XMODEMSLEEP AT notifications, and integrated support for AWS IoT for cloud communications. They focused on refining the internal state handling of the cloud connection and data transmission, including enhancements for handling FOTA events, managing device configurations, and sending batch updates to nRF Cloud.
connect-sdknrf-connect-sdkinfinibandlteppp
bifravst/cat-tracker-fw
Jun 2019 - Feb 2020
Cat Tracker Firmware
Contributions:1 release, 1811 commits, 13 PRs in 7 months
mikrotikfirmwaretracker
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