Jesse Hills
Software Engineer at Open Home Foundation
Upper Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolJesse Hills is a versatile software engineer with 11 years’ experience building embedded and backend systems, now contributing to Open Home Foundation and previously at Nabu Casa where he focused on ESPHome integrations for the widely used Home Assistant project. He brings a polyglot background—Python, Node.js, Ruby on Rails, Android and C++—and experience across DevOps and senior engineering roles, enabling him to bridge firmware, cloud services, and deployment pipelines. His BSc in Computer Science and Japanese from Victoria University of Wellington complements a pragmatic, cross-cultural approach to problem solving. Notably, his open-source work added device-specific features and tests for ESPHome within home-assistant/core, demonstrating attention to compatibility and quality. Based in Upper Hutt, New Zealand, Jesse combines hands-on coding with system-level thinking to deliver reliable, privacy-minded home automation integrations.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Japanese, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Japanese at Victoria University of WellingtonWainuiomata High School
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Github Skills (21)
c-language10
python10
iot10
sys10
esp3210
embedded10
home-assistant10
cprogramming-language10
esphome10
asyncio9
sensor-fusion9
system-integration9
i2c9
home-automation9
serial-communication8
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
home-assistant/core
Jan 2018 - 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:143 reviews, 75 commits, 155 PRs in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Jesse primarily contributed to the ESPHome integration within the home-assistant/core repository. Their work focused on enhancing the ESPHome platform, specifically addressing and improving the support for ESPHome devices, including adding support for new functionalities such as Switchbot Blind Tilt. The contributions involved modifying and extending existing code, and adding new test cases. The commits suggest a strong focus on features specific to ESPHome devices.
raspberry-pipythonhouseprivacy-firstasyncio
jesserockz/athom-configs
Aug 2021 - Mar 2022
Contributions:3 reviews, 53 commits, 11 PRs in 6 months
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