Klaas Schoute
UX Engineer at Dutch Drone Squad
Amstelveen, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolKlaas Schoute is a UX Engineer with nine years of experience blending user-centered design and front-end engineering to create intuitive, maintainable digital products. Currently at Mr.Green Offices, he bridges design and R&D by improving interaction flows while enforcing code quality through linting and styling practices. An active open-source contributor to Home Assistant, Klaas has implemented integrations and diagnostics that improve home energy and device telemetry, reflecting a practical focus on local-control, privacy-first automation. He founded Dutch Drone Squad, demonstrating a knack for community building and hands-on hardware interaction that complements his minor in robotics and machine learning. Klaas combines product-minded UX skills with back-end contributions and a curiosity for real-world IoT and energy-management challenges.
9 years of coding experience
VMBO TL, Voortgezet middelbaar onderwijs (VMBO), VMBO TL, Voortgezet middelbaar onderwijs (VMBO) at Heliomare onderwijsHoger algemeen voortgezet onderwijs (Havo), Hoger algemeen voortgezet onderwijs (Havo) at ROC Horizon CollegeBachelor's degree, UX Engineer, Bachelor's degree, UX Engineer at Hogeschool Leiden
Github Skills (8)
intergration10
integrate10
python10
integrations10
home-automation10
asyncio10
diagnostics9
iot9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
home-assistant/core
Apr 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:235 reviews, 46 commits, 118 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Klaas contributed to the Home Assistant core by adding diagnostics for the Pure Energie integration, focusing on data retrieval and display. They also addressed an issue in the P1 Monitor component related to water meter functionality, implementing necessary checks and bumping package versions. Furthermore, the user added API key validation to the Forecast.Solar configuration flow and made changes to the Garage Amsterdam and EnergyZero integrations.
raspberry-pipythonhouseprivacy-firstasyncio
klaasnicolaas/ha_nfc_scanner
Feb 2019 - Sep 2022
Contributions:1 release, 19 commits, 3 pushes in 3 years 7 months
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