Matthias Hochgatterer
Software Engineer at Matthias Hochgatterer
Austria
Summary
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RockstarMatthias Hochgatterer is a software engineer with 15 years of experience specializing in home automation, embedded and consumer-facing software. Based in Austria, he contributes to and builds production-quality HomeKit and KNX tooling—most notably backend work on brutella/hc, a lightweight Go framework for HomeKit accessories, and the hkcam open-source HomeKit camera. His skill set spans backend systems in Go, localized parsing and QA for libraries like DDMathParser, and native iOS/macOS UI work in Objective-C, including interactive features and Core Animation. Matthias blends protocol-level encryption and pairing expertise with pragmatic front-end UX enhancements, showing comfort across full-stack concerns. He consistently ships well-tested code and pays attention to locale and edge-case robustness that often goes unnoticed.
15 years of coding experience
Github Skills (22)
unit-testing10
objective-c10
ios10
animation10
homekit10
animated10
ffmpeg10
ui-design10
camera10
go10
cryptography10
animate10
ui-framework10
swift10
macos10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
brutella/hc
Sep 2014 - Mar 2022
hc is a lightweight framework to develop HomeKit accessories in Go.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 537 commits, 37 PRs in 7 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Matthias primarily focused on developing the backend infrastructure for a HomeKit accessory framework in Go. The commits demonstrate work on the pairing controller by adding and refactoring the code. Further work on the setup and verification steps of the pairing process was done by adding functionality for secret keys, encryption key, and the implementation of required functionality.
golangaccessorieshomekithaplightweight-framework
brutella/hkcam
Dec 2018 - Sep 2022
Open-Source HomeKit Surveillance Camera
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 139 commits, 7 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Matthias primarily contributed to the development of the "hkcam" open-source HomeKit surveillance camera. Their work included adding features such as custom asset management, including taking and retrieving snapshots. They also addressed backend issues, modifying streaming setups and data handling. Furthermore, the user added front-end web UI features like snapshot viewing, and implemented infrastructure components such as code deployment.
raspberry-pihomekitcamerasurveillancesurveillance-camera
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