Koen Kanters
Senior Software Engineer at ASML
North Brabant, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolKoen Kanters is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience, currently at ASML and long active in consultancy and embedded systems work. He is the founder and driving force behind the widely used Zigbee2MQTT ecosystem—authoring core libraries, firmware tooling, OTA management and the Home Assistant add-on—combining deep Zigbee radio/firmware expertise with backend and frontend development. Koen’s background spans DevOps, embedded IoT, and full-stack documentation, showing he can move between low-level radio settings and user-facing integrations. His career blends enterprise engineering at Capgemini and TNO with influential open-source stewardship, making him a go-to expert for practical, production-ready Zigbee solutions. Based in North Brabant, he pairs systematic engineering with a knack for making complex wireless systems accessible to makers and integrators.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
HAVO, Nature & Technology, HAVO, Nature & Technology at Carolus Borromeus CollegeICT & Software Engineering, ICT & Software Engineering at Fontys University of Applied Sciences
Dutch, English
Github Skills (46)
file-management10
docker10
javascript10
lib10
addin10
back-end-development10
scripting10
plugin-development10
mqtt10
configuration-management10
typescript10
bash10
c1110
dockers10
mqttnet10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
zigbee2mqtt/hassio-zigbee2mqtt
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
Official Zigbee2MQTT Home Assistant add-on
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Embedded Systems Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:68 releases, 10 reviews, 109 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Koen primarily focused on maintaining and improving the build and configuration of the Zigbee2MQTT Home Assistant add-on. Their commits involve modifying the addon's initialization scripts and configuration files. They also addressed issues related to socat, including enabling logging. The contributions demonstrate a strong understanding of how the addon is deployed and configured within the Home Assistant ecosystem and also with the zigbee2mqtt project.
zigbee2mqttassistantzigbeehome-automationhome-assistant
Koenkk/zigbee2mqtt
Apr 2018 - Jan 2023
Zigbee 🐝 to MQTT bridge 🌉, get rid of your proprietary Zigbee bridges 🔨
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:118 releases, 273 reviews, 2211 commits in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Koen's commits primarily focus on implementing and modifying functionalities related to a Zigbee to MQTT bridge. They made changes to address OTA update message errors, add and modify group functionalities, and improve the structure for the device/groups. The commits demonstrate an understanding of the system's core logic. They also added and removed environment variables.
proprietarybridgemqtthome-automationzigbee
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