Bluefox
Chief Executive Officer at ioBroker GmbH
Altleiningen, Germany
Summary
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RockstarBluefox is a seasoned software leader and CEO with 13 years of hands-on experience building and operating open-source home automation infrastructure. As a core developer and CEO of ioBroker GmbH, he blends full-stack development, backend/DevOps expertise and product leadership to deliver robust smart-home integrations like the widely used ioBroker and its Zigbee adapter. He has driven installation, CI/CD and autostart tooling for cross-platform deployments while improving UI/UX, documentation and internationalization across projects. His contributions span protocol-level work (Modbus, Zigbee) to frontend polish and user-facing features, showing a rare comfort across hardware interfaces and web ecosystems. Based in Altleiningen, Germany, he pairs pragmatic engineering with long-term maintenance focus, often addressing edge-case device interoperability and installer robustness. Colleagues know him for shipping reliable systems and quietly fixing the annoying installation and pairing problems others avoid.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (44)
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npm10
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iobroker10
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ui-design10
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repo-management10
front-end-development10
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build-automation10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ioBroker/ioBroker
Aug 2014 - Dec 2022
Automate your life!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:4 releases, 3 reviews, 304 commits in 8 years 5 months
Contributions summary:This user, identified as "bluefox," primarily focused on setting up and configuring the installation process for the ioBroker project. Their commits involved creating installation scripts for both Windows and Linux environments, encompassing tasks like setting file permissions, integrating system services, and enabling autostart features. They also worked on dependency management by adding npm packages and fixing installation-related errors. In addition to the core back-end setup, bluefox was also involved in the CI/CD pipeline, and has setup code for autostarting the service.
pythonscadahome-automationsmarthomeiobroker
ioBroker/ioBroker.docs
Mar 2017 - Jan 2023
Documentation for ioBroker
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 543 commits, 124 PRs in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:The user, identified as bluefox, primarily focused on enhancing the ioBroker documentation website. Their contributions involved modifications to the website's user interface, including changes to the header, footer, and overall styling of the documentation. They implemented new features, such as a search function and a cloud button, and also worked on the styling for the blog. Furthermore, the user addressed issues related to image display and various formatting elements.
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