Niels Faber is an electrical engineer based in Eindhoven with six years of hands-on experience designing electronics for motion control, robotics, and custom manufacturing machines. He combines strengths in power and analog/digital circuit design, PCB layout, electromechanical actuator design and EMC/functional safety to take products from concept to manufacturable reality. At Prodrive he has progressed from internship and hardware roles to a core engineering position focused on motion control electronics, including a master's-level project developing a 300W BLDC motor drive. Outside work he contributes to open-source Home Assistant front-end projects, improving UIs and actionable notifications—demonstrating a practical flair for full-stack tweaks despite not being a software professional. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic design-for-manufacturing decisions and electrical qualification expertise that speed products to market. He is curious and hands-on, often bridging the gap between mechanical motion systems and robust electronic control.
6 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor, Electrical Engineering at Fontys Hogeschool Eindhoven
VWO, N&G, VWO, N&G at St Vituscollege Bussum
Master’s Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master’s Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
Easy to use alarm system integration for Home Assistant
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:63 releases, 17 reviews, 202 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Niels contributed significantly to the frontend of the `alarmo` project, adding support for siren and group entities to the actions editor. They improved logging for debugging and fixed sorting and made other minor improvements to the action editor, the sensor views and the code and general view sections. The commits also included upgrading to Lit 2 and incorporating support for actionable notifications, all while adapting the UI to changes in the alarmo-card project.
Home Assistant card for controlling the Alarmo component
Contributions:14 releases, 44 commits, 19 PRs in 1 year 5 months
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Niels Faber - Electrical Engineer at Prodrive B.V.