Yannis Glaropoulos
Product Director - Wi-Fi at Nordic Semiconductor
Stockholm, Sweden
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Top SchoolYannis Glaropoulos is a Product Director for Wi‑Fi at Nordic Semiconductor with 11 years of experience bridging wireless research and product leadership. He holds a Ph.D. in Wireless Networks from KTH and built deep expertise in embedded systems, security, and RTOS (Zephyr), evolving from hands‑on firmware and protocol work into product management. At Nordic he has led security, stack and architecture efforts for multiple generations of nRF SoCs and contributed practical secure-boot examples to the widely used nRF Connect SDK. Comfortable moving between low-level ARM/TrustZone details and market-driven roadmaps, he combines rigorous academic training with pragmatic engineering. Colleagues rely on him for turning novel wireless features and protocol optimizations into shipping silicon products. Based in Stockholm, he brings a rare mix of research credibility, open-source stewardship, and product instinct to connectivity platforms.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma of Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, 8.33/10, Diploma of Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, 8.33/10 at Aristoteleion Panepistimion ThessalonikisDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Wireless networks, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Wireless networks at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
English, Swedish, Spanish, German, Russian, Greek
Github Skills (9)
nrf9110
embedded10
sys10
boot10
c119
zephyr9
c179
documentation8
kconfig7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nrfconnect/sdk-nrf
Oct 2018 - Jun 2021
nRF Connect SDK main repository
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:406 reviews, 43 commits, 198 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Yannis primarily contributed to the nRF Connect SDK, focusing on secure boot implementations and configurations. They developed a secure boot example for the nRF9160, configuring flash, SRAM, and peripherals, while also addressing Non-Secure system boot settings. Moreover, they fixed comments, corrected macro definitions, added and updated release notes related to Zephyr and TF-M within the SDK documentation.
connect-sdknrf-connect-sdkinfinibandlteppp
ioannisg/zephyr
Dec 2017 - Nov 2021
Primary GIT Repository for the Zephyr Project
Contributions:1 release, 1361 commits, 2078 pushes in 4 years
git-repositoryversion-controlansible-collectionszephyr
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