Bram Kragten
Frontend Developer at Open Home Foundation
The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
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Bram Kragten is a frontend developer with nine years of experience, based in The Hague, who specializes in improving user interfaces and developer-facing components for large open-source ecosystems. He has been a key contributor to Home Assistant’s frontend and core projects and has worked across mobile (Android), backend, and documentation—demonstrating a rare full-stack fluency for an engineer titled “frontend.” Bram’s work on Material Web Components shows an eye for refactoring and performance (migrating ripples to lazy-loaded implementations), while his Home Assistant contributions span UI features, API fixes, and system-level enhancements. He also builds and maintains community-facing integrations like a configurable animated weather card and has improved browser-based tooling for ESP devices. Comfortable in JavaScript, HTML, Python and Android, Bram combines pragmatic maintenance work with feature development and clear technical writing for users. His background in engineering and long-running involvement with Home Assistant highlights both product-minded thinking and a commitment to open-source collaboration.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering Business Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering Business Engineering at Inholland University of Applied Sciences
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Github Skills (51)
component-based10
kotlin10
lit-element10
javascript10
mobile-development10
python10
component-design10
component-development10
css10
typescript10
user-interface10
web-components10
component-diagram10
system-design10
carbon-design-system10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
bramkragten/weather-card
Jun 2019 - Aug 2021
Weather Card with animated icons for Home Assistant Lovelace
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:16 releases, 3 reviews, 32 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Bram primarily focused on developing the front-end components for a weather card to be used in Home Assistant Lovelace. Their contributions involved modifying the existing JavaScript code, updating icon paths, and making elements configurable. They added support for showing different elements, like the current weather, details, and forecast, and also updated styling for responsiveness.
lovelaceanimatedassistanthacshome-assistant
home-assistant/frontend
Aug 2017 - Jan 2023
:lollipop: Frontend for Home Assistant
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:33 releases, 9050 reviews, 2258 commits in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Bram's commits primarily focus on modifying the frontend for Home Assistant. They made changes to the format of service descriptions, updated the add-automation-element-dialog.ts, and gave the todo and calendar edit views static headers. They also moved notification services to the main list and introduced support for image selection for view backgrounds. Their work touched various components and pages, improving the user interface and potentially the user experience of the Home Assistant frontend.
user-interfacelit-elementassistanthome-automationwebcomponents
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