Bas Withagen
Product Support Engineer at CHL
Oegstgeest, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolBas Withagen is a versatile product support and electrical engineer with 12 years of experience turning customer needs and physical constraints into working prototypes across electronics, firmware, and mechanical design. Currently at CHL, he combines hands-on low-level software development with parametric hardware design to deliver end-to-end prototype solutions. His background spans research-driven projects (like developing firmware for laser-based trawl-net alternatives at Innovation Center Iceland) to running and growing maker labs and Fab Academy instruction and evaluation. Bas excels at bridging concept to production—selecting components, laying out PCBs, creating housings, and writing embedded and occasionally high-level software. He’s comfortable in multidisciplinary teams and brings a pragmatic maker’s mindset that speeds iteration and reduces handoffs. Based in Oegstgeest, Netherlands, he’s particularly strong at integrating user research and physical engineering to create functional, testable products.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Fab Academy, Fab Academy at Academany - The Academy of (almost) AnythingProduct development, MBO, Product development, MBO at ROC MondriaanEngineer’s Degree, Game Technology, Physical user interfaces, Engineer’s Degree, Game Technology, Physical user interfaces at Hogeschool Utrecht
English, German, Dutch
Github Skills (22)
plotter10
cnc-controller9
arduino-ide8
arduino8
cnc8
gcode8
ide8
javascript6
ruby4
docker4
blockchain3
scilab3
java3
hardware2
rover2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Madouc/fablab-locations
May 2014 - Aug 2019
Contributions:52 commits, 7 pushes, 1 comment in 5 years 3 months
java
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