Duco Sebel
Embedded Software Engineer at homewizard
Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolDuco Sebel is an embedded software engineer with five years of experience focused on IoT product development at HomeWizard, where he researches and implements new techniques across end-to-end device software. He contributes to notable open-source projects like Home Assistant, adding HomeWizard device support (sensors, switches, volume, status light control) and improving cloud-related configuration, unit tests, and code quality. Based in Leiden, he combines applied-science training and control-systems education with hands-on firmware and backend integration skills. Colleagues value him for turning product ideas into reliable, privacy-focused home automation features and for bridging device-level constraints with cloud-connected functionality.
5 years of coding experience
Besturingstechnicus, Besturingstechnicus at ROVCBachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc at De Haagse Hogeschool / The Hague University of Applied SciencesPodium- en Evenemententechnicus, Podium- en Evenemententechnicus at Grafisch Lyceum Rotterdam
Github Skills (7)
mqtt10
iot10
python10
home-automation10
mqttnet10
asyncio10
testing10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
home-assistant/core
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:316 reviews, 39 commits, 133 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Duco primarily contributed to the `homewizard/core` repository by implementing features related to HomeWizard devices, specifically focusing on sensors and switch functionalities. Their work involved adding support for new device classes like volume and implementing the status light level control for HomeWizard Energy Sockets. These changes also include adding new configuration options related to the cloud connection feature, while implementing code quality improvements and providing unit tests to validate the added features.
raspberry-pipythonhouseprivacy-firstasyncio
homewizard/python-homewizard-energy
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
HomeWizard Energy API implementation in Python. Designed for Home Assistant but can be used for any Async application.
Contributions:42 releases, 7 reviews, 32 commits in 10 months
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