Oliver Van Porten
Senior Manager Software Engineering at Oliver van Porten - IT Beratung und Software Entwicklung
Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolOliver Van Porten is a senior engineering leader and polyglot software engineer with over a decade of experience building high-performing teams and production-grade systems, currently managing software engineering at Cerence and co-founding Ad Astra Learning Adventures. He blends hands-on expertise in Python, C/C++, CI/CD and cloud-native patterns (CKAD certified) with a strong interest in IoT, smart home automation, ML and AR/VR, often applying pragmatic architecture to bridge embedded and web frontends. A former Scrum Master and SAFe Agilist, he has led agile transformations and coached teams to reliably ship complex TTS and embedded projects across large organizations. Outside of corporate roles he runs his own consulting practice and tinker projects, reflecting a lifelong maker mindset that fuels practical automation and home-automation experiments.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master Of Science Computer Science; Software Engineering and Programming Languages, Master Of Science Computer Science; Software Engineering and Programming Languages at FernUniversität in HagenDiplom Informatiker (FH) Computer Science, Diplom Informatiker (FH) Computer Science at FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences
English, German, French, Dutch
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Github Skills (96)
python10
npm-package10
automation10
home-assistant10
netlify-cms10
javascript10
decap-cms10
mqtt10
home-automation10
garden10
iot10
static-site10
internet-of-things10
asyncio10
privacy10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mcdeck/home-assistant-core
Aug 2016 - Jan 2021
:house_with_garden: Open-source home automation platform running on Python 3
Contributions:8 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 5 months
raspberry-pipythonhousegardenmqtt
mcdeck/dword.org
Aug 2017 - Jun 2024
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 10 months
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