Laurens Slats
Partner IoT Stars at Jellyfish Communities
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolLaurens Slats is an IoT-focused developer relations and community-building leader with a decade of experience connecting engineers, products, and ecosystems from Amsterdam. As Partner at IoT Stars and founder of Jellyfish Communities he designs exclusive events and developer programs that amplify open-source IoT adoption, drawing on prior roles as Community Manager for The Things Network and LoRaWAN solutions architect. He blends hands-on embedded work—contributing device decoders/encoders to the widely used TheThingsNetwork lorawan-devices repo—with strategic DevRel at companies like Monogoto. Trained as an industrial and product designer at TU Delft and Eindhoven, he brings a maker’s sensibility to developer experience and event curation. Colleagues rely on him to translate low-level firmware details into engaging community opportunities that accelerate real-world IoT deployments.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Industrial and Product Design, Bachelor's Degree Industrial and Product Design at Eindhoven University of TechnologyMaster’s Degree Industrial and Product Design, Master’s Degree Industrial and Product Design at Delft University of Technology
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Github contributions (5)
TheThingsNetwork/lorawan-devices
Jul 2020 - Apr 2021
Device Repository for LoRaWAN devices
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 37 commits, 6 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Laurens primarily contributed to the project by adding and modifying device decoders and encoders for a Tektelic home sensor and an all-in-one smart room sensor. Their work involved defining data structures and implementing decoding functions for LoRaWAN device data, likely parsing sensor readings and settings from incoming byte arrays, and creating encoder functions to transmit data back to the device. The commits demonstrate a focus on device-specific data handling within the context of LoRaWAN communication.
lorawanlorawan-devicesiot
TheThingsNetwork/workshops
Mar 2017 - Sep 2021
Workshops for The Things Network
Contributions:171 commits, 168 pushes in 4 years 6 months
the-things-networkiot
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