Ferry Van Zeelst is a Scrummaster and systems specialist with a decade of experience in application development, testing, and project coordination within large public-sector environments. Based in Zoetermeer, Netherlands, he has progressed through technical and leadership roles at Politie Nederland, combining hands-on systems work with agile delivery and stakeholder coordination. Technically fluent in C++, C#, Python, Java and web technologies, he also contributes to embedded/IoT open-source projects—notably adding HTTPS, resilience features and threading improvements to the Duino‑Coin miner for ESP32/ESP8266. His background spans performance and middleware testing, software development and process certifications (Scrum, PRINCE2), giving him a rare blend of deep testing craft and delivery leadership. Known for pragmatic problem solving, he often bridges low-level technical detail and team-level process improvements to keep projects both robust and on schedule.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Prince 2 Foundation, Prince 2 Foundation at Exin
Bachelor, ICT, Bachelor, ICT at Haagse Hogeschool/TH Rijswijk
Scrum Master - Training, Scrum Master - Training at Cibit Academy
ᕲ Duino-Coin is a coin that can be mined with almost everything, including Arduino boards.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Ferry primarily contributed to the implementation of the Duino-Coin miner on ESP32 and ESP8266 microcontrollers. Their work involved adding HTTPS support for the pool API, incorporating features such as auto-generation of rig names and a variable to store the miner version. Furthermore, the user enhanced the miner's resilience by implementing incremental sleep mechanisms to prevent server flooding and rewrote the threading system for improved maintainability.
:house_with_garden: Open-source home automation platform running on Python 3
Contributions:2 PRs, 15 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 3 months
raspberry-pipythonhousegardenmqtt
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Ferry Van Zeelst - Scrummaster at Politie Nederland