Frank Exoo
Lead Engineer R&D at Omron Europe B.V.
North Brabant, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolFrank Exoo is a seasoned hardware and embedded systems leader with over 10 years in senior R&D roles and a long career at Omron Europe guiding product development and EMC testing. As Lead Engineer R&D he combines project management, motion control expertise and hands-on hardware design experience dating back to PC motherboard development at Tulip Computers. He contributes to open-source embedded firmware for ESP8266/ESP32 (nodemcu), adding practical IoT features like WPS and MQTT fixes that reflect an applied focus on connectivity and reliability. Based in North Brabant, Netherlands, he pairs regulatory-focused testing (EMC) with low-level firmware work, bridging compliance and product functionality. Colleagues know him for translating complex hardware constraints into robust, manufacturable designs and pragmatic software-hardware integrations.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Atheneum, Atheneum at Bataafse Kamp, HengeloSaxion University of Applied Sciences
Github Skills (13)
firmware10
esp3210
lua10
iot10
embedded10
sys10
iot-devkit10
wifi10
esp826610
mqttnet9
wps9
mqtt9
spiffs8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
nodemcu/nodemcu-firmware
Jun 2016 - Feb 2018
Lua based interactive firmware for ESP8266, ESP8285 and ESP32
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 15 PRs, 133 comments in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Frank primarily contributes to the Lua-based firmware for ESP8266 and ESP32 devices. Their work involves adding features like displaying IP addresses after setup and implementing new modules such as WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup) functionality. Additionally, the user addresses bug fixes, such as a reconnect issue for MQTT and accepting longer Wi-Fi passwords. The user's commits also involve adjusting the firmware to utilize new file systems and integrating drivers for touch controllers.
luaspiffsesp8285firmwareesp8266
bk1285/rpi_wordclock
May 2018 - Jan 2022
Software to create a Raspberry Pi based wordclock
Contributions:5 reviews, 27 commits, 10 PRs in 3 years 9 months
raspberry-pipythonwebinterfaceledraspberry
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