Maarten Koster
Lead Hardware Designer at Philips
Eindhoven Area Netherlands
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolMaarten Koster is a Lead Hardware Designer based in Eindhoven with 8–10 years of high-tech experience designing control and acquisition electronics for medical imaging systems. At Philips he leads hardware development for MR subsystems, specializing in signal and power integrity, high-speed communication, clocking and end-to-end product delivery from requirements to production. He combines strong academic training (MSc Electrical Engineering) with hands-on skills in PCB design, RF ADCs, SMPS, FPGA firmware and rigorous testing and reliability practices. Earlier roles at Technolution and research projects produced systems ranging from electron microscope controllers to a patented DVD-based fluorescence detector, showing a knack for multidisciplinary solutions. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic team player who bridges deep circuit-level expertise with systems thinking and external stakeholder coordination. Outside of formal bios he also codes occasionally, reflecting a continual curiosity across hardware and software.
9 years of coding experience
High Tech Institute EindhovenPhilips UniversityVWO, Nature & Technology, Economics, Advanced Physics, VWO, Nature & Technology, Economics, Advanced Physics at Maartens CollegeBSc, Electrical Engineering, 7.3, BSc, Electrical Engineering, 7.3 at Universiteit Twente / Twente University
English, Dutch, French, German
Github Skills (30)
translation10
internationalization10
chrome-extension10
localization10
tampermonkey10
discord-bot10
opera-extension10
safari-extension10
prefixes6
spigot5
minecraft5
ethernet4
bukkit4
prefix3
backpropagation3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
vicr123/Quad
Feb 2020 - Jan 2023
Discord Bot
Contributions:2 releases, 1 review, 89 commits in 2 years 11 months
discord-bot
Akribes/aircs-3d-map
Jul 2023 - Jan 2026
3D map of the AirCS railway network
Contributions:1 PR, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.