Greg D
Senior Software Engineer at reMarkable
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolGreg D is a Senior Software Engineer based in Oslo with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, event-driven systems and developer-focused infrastructure. He has strong backend and DevOps chops—shipping Golang microservices, gRPC systems on GCP Cloud Run, Terraform-managed infra, and production-grade sync and consent/privacy tooling for consumer devices. Greg contributed to the Mender open-source OTA updater and its Yocto meta-layer, improving test automation and device-specific CI for boards like the BeagleBone Black, showing an attention to embedded/edge workflows as well as cloud. His background spans video transcoding orchestration, automated testing frameworks, and migrations to TypeScript and modern developer workstations, reflecting a pragmatic balance of reliability, automation, and developer experience. He also frequently speaks publicly about Golang and IoT topics, combining hands-on engineering with community-facing knowledge sharing.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Of Computer Science, Software Systems, Bachelor Of Computer Science, Software Systems at Concordia UniversityPure and Applied Science, General Science, Pure and Applied Science, General Science at Vanier College
English, French, Italian, Norwegian
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Github Skills (25)
docker10
bash10
dockers10
cicd10
yocto10
go10
yocto-project10
test-automation10
api-design9
git9
python9
sys9
fabric9
embedded9
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mendersoftware/mender
Mar 2016 - Apr 2018
Mender over-the-air software updater client.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:36 commits, 47 PRs, 20 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Greg contributed to the Mender project by implementing core functionality and making improvements across multiple areas. They added a script to check for signed-off commits, ensuring code quality. Their work included code refactoring (removing dead code), adding a warning message for image updates, and modifying API calls. They also addressed whitespace issues in the authentication token and refactored the store interface, improving code organization.
menderover-the-air
mendersoftware/meta-mender
Mar 2016 - Apr 2018
Yocto Project meta layer for the Mender client
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Test Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:100 commits, 87 PRs, 49 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Greg primarily focused on enhancing the testing infrastructure and automation capabilities of the Mender client Yocto Project meta layer. Their contributions included modifying acceptance tests, specifically by adjusting the timeout for reboots and adding support for BeagleBone Black (BBB) testing. They introduced scripts and configurations for automating the BBB testing environment, including SD card image modification and the setup of SSH tunnels, and updated the testing framework to use Mender artifacts.
mendermeta-layeryocto
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