Stine Åkredalen
R&D Engineer at Nordic Semiconductor
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolStine Åkredalen is an R&D engineer based in Oslo with five years' experience building embedded Bluetooth Mesh systems at Nordic Semiconductor. She specializes in implementing and testing complex mesh features—such as Mesh Time, Scheduler, Large Composition Data and segmented message handling—within Zephyr RTOS and the nRF Connect SDK, and has authored tests and fixes that improve reliability for real-world hardware. Her background combines a master’s in electronics and robotics from NTNU with hands-on work integrating sensors and dongles (nRF52840) and running large-scale testbeds. Colleagues rely on her deep protocol knowledge and practical debugging skills to close tricky interoperability and conversion bugs that often evade automated checks.
5 years of coding experience
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Norwegian, English
Github Skills (24)
bluetooth-mesh10
testing10
embedded-language10
zephyr-rtos10
bluetooth-le10
c1110
zephyr10
c1710
iot10
rtos10
sys10
bluetooth10
embedded10
iot-devkit10
realtime9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr
Oct 2022 - Apr 2025
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:135 reviews, 18 PRs, 59 comments in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Stine contributed to the Zephyr RTOS project by implementing and testing Bluetooth Mesh features, specifically focusing on Large Composition Data (LCD) and SAR (Segmented Application Relay) functionalities. Their work involved writing tests to validate the correct transmission and reception of large data payloads, including metadata, and ensuring proper handling of segmented messages. The contributions also included refactoring and adding test cases related to proxy solicitation, opcode aggregator, and related configurations.
bluetooth-lereal-timezephyrsecuregit-repository
nrfconnect/sdk-nrf
Sep 2022 - Sep 2022
nRF Connect SDK main repository
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:92 reviews, 1 commit, 23 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Stine primarily contributed to the nRF Connect SDK, focusing on Bluetooth Mesh functionality. Their commits involved fixing bugs and improving the Mesh Time and Scheduler models, demonstrating a deep understanding of Bluetooth mesh specifications and implementation details. Furthermore, they enhanced the Light Dimmer sample with support for the nRF52840 dongle and added new sensor types to the sensor client and server samples, showcasing their expertise in integrating hardware and developing embedded software for Bluetooth mesh devices. They also addressed issues in sensor value conversions and shell model clients.
connect-sdknrf-connect-sdkinfinibandlteppp
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