Aidan Timson
Software Engineer at Open Home Foundation
North West Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAidan Timson is a full‑stack software engineer with nine years of experience building backend and frontend applications, currently working on the Home Assistant frontend at the Open Home Foundation. He combines practical product work—rewriting ecommerce sites into headless Next.js apps and building internal tooling—with deep open‑source engagement, contributing integrations and UI enhancements to the widely used Home Assistant project. His contributions span Python backend integrations (System Bridge) and polished Lovelace UI improvements, and he maintains multiple CI/CD pipelines across GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps and GitLab CI. Comfortable owning features end‑to‑end, he automates workflows and crafts user‑facing interfaces that make everyday tasks simpler. Based in North West Leicestershire, he’s motivated by tinkering with new tech and translating community needs into reliable, reusable code. An underappreciated strength is his consistent focus on cross‑platform integration—bridging cloud services, home automation, and developer tooling.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BTEC Extended Level 3 in IT, BTEC Extended Level 3 in IT at Stephenson College
English, azure, python, typescript, javascript, lansa
Stackoverflow
2,276reputation
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23answers
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Github Skills (25)
lit-element10
javascript10
python10
css10
user-interface10
html10
home-assistant10
frontend10
api-design9
web-components9
apim9
asyncio9
ui-design9
api9
home-automation8
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
home-assistant/core
Feb 2018 - Jan 2023
:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:190 reviews, 89 commits, 200 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:Aidan's commits primarily involve modifications to the `homeassistant/components/system_bridge` directory, indicating a focus on backend logic and integration with Home Assistant. The code changes include the implementation of new sensors, adding functionality to the media player, and service implementations using Python. These contributions showcase the user's role in extending and enhancing the functionality of the System Bridge integration within the broader Home Assistant ecosystem.
raspberry-pipythonhouseprivacy-firstasyncio
home-assistant/frontend
Sep 2018 - Aug 2020
:lollipop: Frontend for Home Assistant
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 28 commits, 42 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Aidan primarily contributed to the front-end of the Home Assistant project. Their commits involved modifying UI components, enhancing user interface elements, and improving the overall user experience. They addressed issues related to input form controls, button styling, and general layout adjustments. A significant portion of the work focused on the Lovelace UI, including card modifications and the addition of search functionality to card pickers and integrations.
user-interfacelit-elementassistanthome-automationwebcomponents
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