Noah Husby
CEO at Husby Labs
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNoah Husby is a software engineer and entrepreneur with eight years of experience, currently leading Husby Labs as CEO from Chicago. He blends hands-on backend development—demonstrated by contributions to the widely used Home Assistant project, where he improved a Russound RIO integration with configuration flows, media browsing, volume control, and protocol integration—with product and operational leadership across automotive and motorsports projects. Noah has delivered custom systems at scale, including a Java-based web logging storage and REST API for Illinois Tech Motorsports, and contributed software at Ford Next. His background spans competitive team leadership roles (President and VP of Finance) and technical operations management in EcoCAR, reflecting an ability to bridge engineering, finance, and project delivery. With an MS in Computer Science from Illinois Tech and a track record of shipping reliable integrations into an open-source home automation platform, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with a privacy-first, pragmatic engineering mindset. An often-overlooked strength is his blend of automotive systems experience and open-source audio integration work, which positions him well at the intersection of embedded, cloud, and user-facing systems.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management, Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management at University of Detroit Jesuit High School and AcademyMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Illinois Institute of Technology
Github Skills (12)
home-assistant10
intergration10
integrate10
python10
integrations10
player9
media-player9
mplayer9
asyncio8
pytest8
home-automation7
iot7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
home-assistant/core
Jul 2024 - Mar 2025
:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:63 reviews, 102 PRs, 172 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Noah primarily worked on the Russound RIO integration for Home Assistant, focusing on enhancing and refining the integration's features and functionality. Their contributions included adding a configuration flow, incorporating device information, implementing media browsing capabilities, adding support for volume controls, and incorporating error handling. Further improvements involved refactoring and cleaning up existing code, and integrating aiorussound to ensure the integration's compatibility with the audio streaming protocol.
raspberry-pipythonhouseprivacy-firstasyncio
noahhusby/ha-core
Jul 2024 - Mar 2025
:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
Contributions:224 pushes, 168 branches in 8 months
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