Michał Grochala
Senior Firmware Engineer at Nordic Semiconductor ASA
Cracow Metropolitan Area Poland
Summary
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RockstarMichał Grochala is a Senior Firmware Engineer based in the Cracow metropolitan area with 9 years of embedded and IoT firmware experience. He’s been at Nordic Semiconductor since 2014, contributing to the widely used nRF Connect SDK and specializing in Bluetooth Low Energy and NFC features. His open-source work includes protocol-level bug fixes (ISO-DEP, ESB), porting to the new k_work API, migrating away from deprecated BT_LOG, and improving nRF5340 documentation and samples. Prior roles in aircraft engine control and at Energy Micro and Silicon Labs give him a safety-critical, low-level systems background that informs his robust firmware designs. He combines hands-on protocol debugging with practical product-focused engineering to reliably ship connected-device firmware.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (13)
nfc10
bluetoothle10
embedded10
zephyr-rtos10
bluetooth-le10
btle10
c-programming10
nrf-connect-sdk10
bluetooth-low-energy10
sys10
c-programming-language10
documentation9
documentations9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nrfconnect/sdk-nrf
Sep 2018 - Jan 2023
nRF Connect SDK main repository
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:714 reviews, 58 commits, 81 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Michał primarily contributes to the nRF Connect SDK, focusing on Bluetooth Low Energy and NFC functionalities. Their work involves bug fixes, such as resolving issues in the ISO-DEP implementation and fixing inconsistencies in the ESB protocol. The user also updates and improves documentation, including user guides for the nRF5340, and samples. The user's commits also include porting to the new k_work API, and migrating from the deprecated BT_LOG.
connect-sdknrf-connect-sdkinfinibandlteppp
grochu/fw-nrfconnect-nrf
Feb 2019 - Mar 2025
nRF Connect SDK nrf tree
Contributions:341 pushes, 141 branches in 6 years 2 months
connect-sdknrf-connect-sdksystems-programmingsdksdk-nrf
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