Maikel Punie
QA Specialist Engineer And Distinguished Member Of Technical Staff (DMTS) at Spot Your Dot
Mol, Antwerp, Belgium
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Top SchoolMaikel Punie is a QA Specialist Engineer and Distinguished Member of Technical Staff with 13 years of experience based in Mol, Antwerp, combining deep test automation expertise with hands-on backend contributions to prominent open-source projects like Home Assistant. At Nokia he drives quality and technical excellence, while also co-founding two ventures (PKM consulting and Spot Your Dot), demonstrating an entrepreneurial bent alongside sustained engineering practice. His open-source work includes refactoring and improving critical integrations (Velbus) and adding async control flows, showing attention to both reliability and maintainability. Longstanding technician roots and a master’s education inform a pragmatic approach that blends low-level systems awareness with scalable QA strategies.
12 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Master's degree at Katholieke Hogeschool Kempen
English, French, Dutch
Github Skills (10)
home-assistant10
pytest10
python10
asyncio10
testing10
home-automation9
configuration-file9
configurations9
internet-of-things8
iot8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
home-assistant/core
Aug 2018 - Jan 2023
:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:113 reviews, 83 commits, 181 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Maikel focused on fixing bugs and improving the Velbus integration within Home Assistant, specifically related to config flows and matching entries. Their contributions involved refactoring tests and rewriting existing test cases. The user also introduced new features like `async_abort_entries_match` and addressed issues related to Velbus matching ignored entries.
raspberry-pipythonhouseprivacy-firstasyncio
Cereal2nd/domogik-plugin-bluez
Jul 2014 - Jan 2016
Contributions:3 releases, 15 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 6 months
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