Pieter Pas
PhD Student at KU Leuven
Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
Summary
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RockstarPieter Pas is a PhD student and software engineer with nine years of hands-on experience in embedded systems and full-stack development, based in Leuven, Belgium. He contributes to notable open-source projects such as Doxygen and an Arduino MIDI controller library, improving front-end UX and adding USB MIDI and RP2040 portability on the embedded side. Pieter’s work spans refactoring and documentation to feature additions like device naming and scalable UI improvements, reflecting a blend of practical engineering and attention to maintainability. Comfortable across hardware-near code and web interfaces, he brings academic rigor to production-quality tooling and developer-facing infrastructure.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (15)
html10
css10
doxygen10
embedded10
javascript10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
sys10
arduino10
integrations9
hardware-interface9
rp20409
system-integration9
svg9
documentation7
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
tttapa/Control-Surface
Sep 2017 - Nov 2022
Arduino library for creating MIDI controllers and other MIDI devices.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Embedded Systems Engineer
Back-end Developer & Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:4 releases, 2 reviews, 1596 commits in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Pieter primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and maintainability of the Arduino library for MIDI controllers. Their contributions involved documenting and refactoring existing code, adding support for USB MIDI and system exclusive messages. They introduced new features, notably the ability to set the device name. These changes were geared towards expanding the library's capabilities and portability across various MIDI devices on the RP2040, ensuring stability and usability across a wider range of hardware.
midi-over-usbraspberry-pi-picoteensycontrollersmidi-devices
doxygen/doxygen
Jun 2020 - Aug 2021
Official doxygen git repository
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 7 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Pieter contributed to the Doxygen project by implementing features and fixing bugs related to HTML generation and the user interface. Their work included improving the search bar's scalability for high-resolution displays by using SVG icons and CSS shadows. They also made changes to code linking to improve semantic syntax highlighting. These modifications show a focus on both front-end presentation and backend logic.
git-repositoryc-plus-pluscompiledoxygenswig
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