Orne Brocaar
Founder ChirpStack Open-source LoRaWAN Network Server Freelance Software Engineer at Brocaar
Aljezur, Faro, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolOrne Brocaar is a seasoned founder and freelance software engineer with 16 years of experience building high-performance back-end systems in Go and Rust, best known for creating the open-source ChirpStack LoRaWAN Network Server. He combines deep protocol and embedded-systems expertise with practical cloud and data tooling—PostgreSQL, Redis, MQTT—and has contributed to prominent projects like Telegraf and multiple ChirpStack components. Orne has a strong track record of architecting resilient production systems (billing engines, load balancers, streaming infrastructure) and helping companies adopt LoRaWAN and integrate ChirpStack into their stacks. Based in the Costa Vicentina in Portugal after stints in London and Rio, he blends hands-on engineering with documentation and usability improvements, and often tackles low-level protocol edge cases that many engineers avoid.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Media & Entertainment Management, Media & Entertainment Management at Christelijke Hogeschool Nederland
Dutch, English, Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (30)
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amazon-elasticsearch10
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elasticsearchquery10
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Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
brocaar/chirpstack-network-server
Feb 2016 - Jan 2023
ChirpStack Network Server is an open-source LoRaWAN network-server.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:143 releases, 4 reviews, 1095 commits in 7 years
Contributions summary:Orne primarily contributed to the backend aspects of the project, demonstrated by fixing linter feedback and updating the network-server API with new fields. Code changes were observed in ADR and message definitions in the protobuf files, indicating a focus on the underlying communication and behavior of the server. The user was involved in the implementation of core functionalities and addressing issues in the core operation of the network server.
lorawannetwork-serverloraiotinternet-of-things
brocaar/chirpstack-application-server
Sep 2016 - Jan 2023
ChirpStack Application Server is an open-source LoRaWAN application-server.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:117 releases, 27 reviews, 1002 commits in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Orne appears to be primarily focused on back-end development, with code changes concentrated on the device-queue and general API implementations. The contributions add new methods and data structures to support features such as the re-encryption of device queue items and the management of device-profile information, while addressing issues like edge cases and deprecations, and refactoring code for efficiency. The user also seems to be involved in the management of LoRa Cloud integrations.
application-serverlorawanchirpstackloraiot
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