Luke Van Der Palen
Senior Project Manager Change at WPP Media Netherlands
Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolLuke Van Der Palen is a senior project manager and solution architect with 12 years’ experience delivering data-driven marketing and digital transformation programs across WPP Media and Greenhouse. He blends hands-on engineering roots—from early full-stack and embedded work to meaningful open-source contributions on home automation (pilight)—with strategic leadership, having shaped product rollouts like Open Media Studio for the Dutch market. Known for connecting business needs to scalable architectures, he has led teams of solution engineers to implement data warehousing, SaaS and integrated marketing platforms that drive measurable outcomes. Luke’s background in creative technologies and electrical engineering gives him a practical edge when translating hardware and protocol-level challenges into reliable software solutions. Based in Eindhoven, he pairs technical depth with stakeholder enablement to accelerate adoption and innovation across complex organisations.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s degree Academy of Media & User eXperience (AMUX) Creative Technologies, Bachelor’s degree Academy of Media & User eXperience (AMUX) Creative Technologies at Avans University of Applied SciencesPost-secondary vocational education School for business and Commerce, Post-secondary vocational education School for business and Commerce at ROC Eindhoven
Github Skills (6)
c1710
protocols10
c1110
sys9
json9
embedded9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
pilight/pilight
Jan 2014 - Jan 2014
open source domotica solution
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits in 4 days
Contributions summary:Luke contributed significantly to the `pilight/pilight` repository, focusing on expanding its functionality to support new hardware integrations. Their primary work involved adding support for the `archtech_door` protocol, which included implementing the necessary code for parsing binary data, creating messages, and handling associated settings and options. Furthermore, the user removed sending capabilities for the `kaku_door` and renamed protocol and states. They also made changes to the web GUI to support the state of the contact sensor.
javadomoticapilight
LukevdPalen/adnxs-api
Apr 2015 - May 2019
adnxs-api is an AppNexus client
Contributions:68 commits, 2 PRs, 41 pushes in 4 years 1 month
appnexusapiandroid
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