Duco Sebel
Embedded Software Engineer at homewizard
Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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RockstarDuco Sebel is an embedded software engineer in Leiden with five years of experience focused on R&D for HomeWizard’s connected devices. He blends low-level firmware know-how with backend integration skills, contributing to the widely used open-source Home Assistant core by adding sensor and switch support, new device classes (including volume), and status light level control for HomeWizard Energy Sockets. Duco prioritizes code quality and testability, delivering configuration improvements and unit tests that strengthen device reliability and privacy-friendly local control. His work sits at the intersection of hardware capability and user-facing automation, turning research insights into dependable, production-ready features.
5 years of coding experience
Github Skills (7)
mqtt10
iot10
python10
home-automation10
mqttnet10
asyncio10
testing10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
home-assistant/core
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:316 reviews, 39 commits, 133 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Duco primarily contributed to the `homewizard/core` repository by implementing features related to HomeWizard devices, specifically focusing on sensors and switch functionalities. Their work involved adding support for new device classes like volume and implementing the status light level control for HomeWizard Energy Sockets. These changes also include adding new configuration options related to the cloud connection feature, while implementing code quality improvements and providing unit tests to validate the added features.
raspberry-pipythonhouseprivacy-firstasyncio
homewizard/python-homewizard-energy
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
HomeWizard Energy API implementation in Python. Designed for Home Assistant but can be used for any Async application.
Contributions:42 releases, 7 reviews, 32 commits in 10 months
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