Fred Houweling
President at houweling.com.au
Mackay, Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolFred Houweling is a pragmatic Computer Systems Engineer and educator based in Mackay, Queensland, with over a decade of hands-on experience across embedded systems, software development, and data analytics. As President of Makerspaces Mackay and owner of a long-running technical consultancy, he blends community-driven hardware experimentation with commercial R&D and bespoke software solutions. His background spans low-level assembly and microcontrollers (68HC11/12, PIC, AVR) through modern application stacks (C#, C/C++, PHP, SQL) and large-scale database reverse engineering. At the Queensland Department of Education he applies engineering rigor to teaching, pairing classroom practice with a Graduate Diploma in Teaching and Learning. Notably, he has led complex ERP data migration and ETL projects and built tools to extract and rehabilitate legacy data from systems like AS400 DB2. He is a hands-on problem solver comfortable translating business requirements into cost-effective technical designs while nurturing local maker culture.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
TAFE NSWGraduate Diploma in Teaching and Learning (GDTL), Secondary Education and Teaching, Graduate Diploma in Teaching and Learning (GDTL), Secondary Education and Teaching at University of Southern Queensland
English, Dutch
Github Skills (6)
octoprint10
snappy9
3d-printer9
printer8
python8
raspberry-pi7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
MrFredH/PSHS-STEM
Aug 2018 - Jun 2019
Contributions:53 commits, 40 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
MrFredH/AliceVision
Sep 2020 - Sep 2020
Photogrammetric Computer Vision Framework
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
vision-frameworkstructure-from-motionpythonphotogrammetryvision
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