Bas Stottelaar
Senior Software Engineer - Platform Team
Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolBas Stottelaar is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building embedded IoT systems, ultra-low-power firmware, and cloud-connected platforms across e-mobility and energy domains. He is fluent in C, Go, Python and several other languages, and currently leads platform work at Deftpower while maintaining a long-running embedded engineering role at Micro’s and More. An active open-source contributor, Bas has added drivers and test tooling to RIOT-OS and device drivers to popular libraries like u8g2, demonstrating deep hardware-level expertise and practical power-saving optimizations. His work spans end-to-end product stacks—from low-power sensor firmware and display drivers to backend services and multi-core media processing—reflecting a pragmatic full-stack embedded mindset. Based in Arnhem, he combines a Master’s in Computer Security with a hobbyist’s passion for hardware projects and 3D printing, often using personal projects to explore new technologies he later applies professionally.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer Security, Master's Degree Computer Security at University of TwenteVWO-diploma, VWO-diploma at Marianum College
Dutch, English, German
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Github Skills (36)
c-language10
displays10
python10
extraction10
metadata10
display-manager10
c1110
c1710
i2c10
iot10
driver10
sys10
embedded10
cprogramming-language10
sensor10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
RIOT-OS/RIOT
Feb 2016 - Apr 2021
RIOT - The friendly OS for IoT
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:106 reviews, 339 commits, 268 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Bas contributed a new driver for the Si70xx temperature and humidity sensor, including the Si7006, Si7013, Si7020 and Si7021 I2C sensors, and a test application. They also added code to allow J-Link to flash a MCU based on serial number. The user also fixed bugs and improved test applications for the Si70xx driver.
iotcosinternetofthingsmicrocontrollers
rembo10/headphones
Feb 2014 - Sep 2015
Automatic music downloader for SABnzbd
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 234 commits, 13 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Bas significantly contributed to the `headphones` project, which is an automatic music downloader. The user added features for multi-core encoding support and developed a mechanism for extracting album metadata from media files to help with determining the correct albums. Further, the user implemented changes to the post-processor, making restructuring in how the album directory is resolved. In addition, the user also added initial support for a Growl notification system.
downloadersabnzbdmusicmusic-downloaderinternet-radio
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