Bert Melis
Maintenance & Reliability Consultant at Arvi bv
Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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Top SchoolBert Melis is a Maintenance & Reliability Consultant with nine years of focused experience delivering reliability engineering, RCM, CMMS implementations and process safety solutions across infrastructure, chemical and pharmaceutical clients. He combines a hands-on engineering background from Philips and Indaver with consultancy impact at Agidens and Arvi, routinely leading root-cause analyses, preventive maintenance programs and SAP master data initiatives. Certified in Six Sigma practices and skilled in SOP development, he balances strategic planning and on-the-ground troubleshooting, including shutdown leadership and KPI-driven budgeting. Outside work he’s a self-taught embedded/IoT developer contributing to prominent ESP32/ESP8266 projects (Arduino-esp32, AsyncMqttClient, Homie) — a practical side that informs his systems-thinking approach to industrial reliability.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science in Electromechanical Engineering Technology, Electrical Power Engineering, Master of Science in Electromechanical Engineering Technology, Electrical Power Engineering at Katholieke Hogeschool Kempen
Dutch, English, French, German, Polish
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Github Skills (32)
asynchronous10
application-framework10
c-language10
clientside10
async10
mqtt10
app-framework10
mqttnet10
esp826610
interrupt10
iot10
sys10
tcp10
esp3210
esp-idf10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
marvinroger/async-mqtt-client
Dec 2020 - Jul 2021
📶 An Arduino for ESP8266 asynchronous MQTT client implementation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 6 reviews, 36 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Bert primarily contributed to the `AsyncMqttClient` library by introducing features and improving code structure. They added a "copy flag" on ESP32 and ESP8266, which was default behavior in AsyncTCP, modifying the core `AsyncMqttClient.cpp` file. Additionally, the user refactored the code by separating classes for outgoing packets, enhancing modularity, and implemented queueing of outgoing messages to manage communication flow.
arduinoasynchronousesp8266mqttesp32
eModbus/eModbus
Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
Modbus library for RTU, ASCII and TCP protocols. Primarily developed on and for ESP32 MCUs.
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 69 commits, 20 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Bert primarily contributed to the `emodbus` library, focused on Modbus communication protocols for embedded systems, particularly for ESP32 MCUs. Their work involved fixing examples, adding dependencies, and implementing an asynchronous TCP client. Furthermore, the user introduced code for recursive parsing of TCP packets and implemented throttling of requests.
esp32modbustcp-protocolserverbridge
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