Floris Westenburg
Stagiair at Kruidvat
Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolFloris Westenburg is a pragmatic software-minded professional with seven years of varied experience blending back-end development contributions to the popular Home Assistant project with front-line roles in retail, public safety, and event first aid. Currently a stagiair at Politie Nederland and teamleider at Kruidvat, he combines hands-on customer and operational leadership with technical work—most notably implementing and improving integrations for home-assistant/core such as Stookwijzer and Devialet. His background in Integrale Veiligheidskunde and roles at Gemeente Rotterdam and Rode Kruis reflect a strong focus on safety, coordination, and resilient systems under pressure. Floris brings an unusual mix of open-source engineering discipline and real-world incident management experience, able to translate user needs into working integrations and operational processes. He is comfortable working across teams and domains, from bumping dependencies and adding diagnostics in a major OSS project to leading frontline staff and coordinating event medical support. Based in the Netherlands, he is building a profile that bridges civic safety, retail leadership, and pragmatic back-end software development.
6 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts - BA Integrale Veiligheidskunde, Bachelor of Arts - BA Integrale Veiligheidskunde at Avans University of Applied SciencesMinor Rechten voor niet Juristen, Minor Rechten voor niet Juristen at HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht (Hogeschool Utrecht)
Dutch, English, French
Github Skills (13)
iot10
home-assistant10
python10
asyncio10
configuration-file9
api9
configurations9
apim9
sensor-fusion8
sensor8
testing7
mqttnet7
mqtt7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
home-assistant/core
Oct 2019 - 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:65 reviews, 3 commits, 25 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Floris primarily contributed to the `home-assistant/core` repository by implementing and updating the Stookwijzer integration, as well as the Devialet integration. Their work involved adding new features, updating the API to retrieve data from atlasleefomgeving.nl, migrating data, modifying configuration flows and test components, and including diagnostics functionality. The user also bumped dependency versions for the Stookwijzer and Devialet integrations.
raspberry-pipythonhouseprivacy-firstasyncio
fwestenberg/reolink_dev
Sep 2019 - Jun 2022
Home Assistant Reolink addon
Contributions:28 releases, 1 review, 184 commits in 2 years 9 months
assistanthacshome-assistantaddonreolink
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