Paul Bottein
Senior Software Engineer at Open Home Foundation
Lille, Hauts-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Bottein is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building both front-end and back-end systems, currently contributing to Home Assistant and the Open Home Foundation from Lille, France. He combines strong UI craftsmanship—creating polished Lovelace dashboard components and Mushroon cards using LitElement—with backend work on integrations, sensors and smart energy metering for the widely used open-source Home Assistant core. His background spans startups and enterprise contexts (Sencrop, IBM) where he led full-stack projects using TypeScript, React, Node.js, NestJS and cloud infrastructure, bringing product-minded engineering to IoT and embedded web experiences. Notably, he bridges UX and systems concerns, shipping tested features across device selectors, blueprint/condition/trigger selectors and energy-related telemetry that enhance privacy-first home automation.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
French University Preparatory School,Engineering degree, Engineering degree at Arts et Métiers - École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers
French, English, Spanish
Github Skills (19)
lit-element10
javascript10
python10
user-interface10
asyncio10
front-end-development10
system-integration10
sensor-fusion10
home-assistant10
typescript9
typescript-types9
yaml9
home-automation9
typescripts9
iot8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
piitaya/lovelace-mushroom
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Build a beautiful Home Assistant dashboard easily
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:18 releases, 212 reviews, 336 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Paul appears to be primarily focused on front-end development, as indicated by the commits focused on building UI elements. They added switch, light, cover and person cards. The user also implemented new features such as setting control for brightness and adding a collapsible design. The contributions showcase a focus on creating user-friendly and visually appealing Home Assistant dashboard components using LitElement and other web technologies.
lovelacemushroomhacshome-assistantdashboard
home-assistant/frontend
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
:lollipop: Frontend for Home Assistant
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 1729 reviews, 260 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Paul contributed to the front-end of the Home Assistant project, focusing on the user interface and Lovelace UI. Their commits involved implementing new features and improving existing ones within the conditional card. The user modified and extended existing code for various components in Lovelace UI.
user-interfacelit-elementassistanthome-automationwebcomponents
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