Don Willems
Product Owner EMobility at Essent
Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolDon Willems is a Product Owner specializing in eMobility who blends a MSc in Industrial Design with seven years of hands-on product and UX leadership to turn complex technical challenges into user-centered solutions. He has led OpenRemote’s open-source IoT product and contributed front-end UI improvements to its widely used platform, giving him a practical appreciation for both community projects and production-grade delivery. At Essent he now focuses on eMobility product strategy, aligning research, business needs and engineering in agile teams where design and delivery intersect. His background running a design studio and roles across UX, concept design and interaction design give him a rare fluency in storytelling, prototyping and stakeholder-driven roadmapping. He’s comfortable shipping pixels and shaping product ecosystems, often spotting usability opportunities that emerge only from long-term user observation.
7 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Industrial Design, Master of Science (MSc), Industrial Design at Eindhoven University of TechnologyVWO, N&T, VWO, N&T at Rythovius College
Dutch, English
Github Skills (10)
css10
uid10
javascript10
frontend10
front-end-development10
ui-design9
asset-management7
iot6
dashboard5
react4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
openremote/openremote
Mar 2019 - Dec 2022
100% open-source IoT Platform - Integrate your devices, create rules, and analyse and visualise your data
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:51 reviews, 110 commits, 83 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Don's contributions primarily focus on UI updates and styling within the OpenRemote IoT platform. They made changes to component styling, specifically within the asset tree and header components. Furthermore, the user addressed styling issues related to the asset viewer and added styling for the add-attribute dialog. The commits also included improvements to the mobile header menu.
fleet-managementdataplatformsmartcityenergy-monitoriot-platform
openremote/documentation
Sep 2024 - Feb 2025
OpenRemote Documentation
Contributions:3 reviews, 6 PRs, 4 pushes in 4 months
iotiot-platformopenremote
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