Top expert inSmart Home Automation and IoT Development
Robert Svensson is a Security Program and Risk Manager with nine years of focused experience shaping enterprise cyber risk governance and security strategy at Flix and FlixBus. He combines hands-on security engineering roots鈥攆ounding Das Malwerk to provide daily malware feeds to the community鈥攚ith product ownership experience driving security as a product across large-scale transportation services. Comfortable bridging technical and business audiences, he previously managed IT security at Telef贸nica NEXT and contributed backend code to the widely used Home Assistant open-source project, improving device integrations and sensor support. Based in Germany with a computer science background from Stockholm University, he blends practical SOC and consultancy experience with strategic program leadership. An avid home automation enthusiast, he often prioritizes building backend functionality over finishing his own smart-home projects, underscoring a pragmatic, curious engineering mindset.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, computer science, Bachelor's degree, computer science at Stockholms universitet
:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:1641 reviews, 742 commits, 1389 PRs in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Robert's contributions focused on fixing and improving the deCONZ integration within the Home Assistant core repository, specifically related to controlling devices. Their work involved modifying code in the `deconz/cover.py` file, which likely involved adding functionality for controlling level controllable output controls. Further, the user implemented changes to the `deconz/sensor.py` file to support new particulate matter endpoints. Additionally, the user made improvements and refactoring within the deCONZ core, as well as adding support for a LIDL Christmas light effect.
Contributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 16 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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Robert Svensson - Security Program And Risk Manager at Flix