Timon Kruiper
FPGA And Software Engineer at Teledyne DALSA
Overijssel, Netherlands
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Top SchoolTimon Kruiper is an FPGA and software engineer with a decade of experience building dependable systems from silicon to kernel-level software. Currently at Teledyne DALSA, he combines FPGA design with systems programming skills developed during a Master’s in Dependable Integrated Systems at the University of Twente. He contributes to notable open-source projects like Zig and SerenityOS, where his work touched compiler backend features and aarch64 kernel support—demonstrating a rare blend of compiler, OS, and hardware expertise. Past roles include embedded AI-on-FPGA development and electronic control design for industrial machinery, reflecting hands-on delivery across prototyping and production. Based in Overijssel, Netherlands, he brings a pragmatic systems mindset and a curiosity for low-level problems that few electrical engineers pursue.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering at University of TwenteBachelor, Electrical engineering, Bachelor, Electrical engineering at Linköpings universitetVWO, VWO at Carmel College Salland
English, Dutch
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Github Skills (23)
programming-language10
c-language10
interrupt-handling10
os-development10
kernel10
interrupt10
compiler-design10
zig10
language-design10
kernel-mode10
arm10
cprogramming-language10
operating-system10
data-structure9
debug9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
SerenityOS/serenity
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
The Serenity Operating System 🐞
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:250 reviews, 158 commits, 32 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Timon primarily focused on contributing to the kernel of the SerenityOS project, specifically targeting the aarch64 architecture. They implemented essential features, including adding an aarch64 version of kprintf.cpp, improving UART functionality, implementing spinlocks, and setting up interrupt handling mechanisms. These changes enabled the debugging and basic functionality of the kernel on the aarch64 platform, with significant changes to the boot process.
kernelunixbrowserserenityoperating-system
ziglang/zig
May 2019 - Apr 2021
General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:33 reviews, 105 commits, 85 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Timon primarily focused on improving the Zig programming language's internal formatting tools and the underlying compilation process, specifically related to string handling within arrays and improved error handling. Their contributions also included enhancing the compiler's capabilities by adding support for new language features, such as hash integer to function calls and handling optional data types in the LLVM backend. The user also worked on generating code for a wider range of data structures, including loops and conditional branching.
purposecompilertoolchainzigprogramming-language
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