Serge Poltorak
Head Of IoT Controller Solutions at Alsenet SA
Champéry, Valais, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolSerge Poltorak is a seasoned IoT engineering leader with 13 years of experience building gateways, controllers and device ecosystems, currently heading IoT Controller Solutions at Trident IoT. He has founded and run hardware and software ventures—including Z-Wave.Me and Alsenet SA—bringing product-level manufacturing and platform experience across Z-Wave, Zigbee and Matter stacks. Serge combines hands-on back-end development (notably contributions to Home Assistant’s Z-Wave integration) with strategic productization of “smartyfication” platforms that turn devices into user-friendly systems. His technical depth is grounded in a Master’s in Astrophysics from MFTI, a background that fuels a data-driven, systems-thinking approach to embedded and cloud-connected solutions. Based in Champéry, Switzerland, he blends entrepreneurial grit with field-proven device interoperability work and a knack for fixing nuanced hardware–software edge cases. Colleagues know him for pragmatic engineering refinements that improve real-world device behavior rather than flashy rewrites.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Astrophysics, Master of Science, Astrophysics at Московский Физико-Технический Институт (Государственный Университет) (МФТИ)
Russian, English, French
Github Skills (10)
iot10
python10
home-automation10
zwave10
asyncio10
mqttnet9
mqtt9
api8
apidoc8
github7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
home-assistant/core
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:44 reviews, 12 commits, 34 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Serge primarily contributed to the Z-Wave.Me integration within the Home Assistant core. Their work involved modifying existing light entities to accommodate different light types, enhancing the cover functionality by fixing calibration issues, and adding a stop command. Further contributions included improving the integration's description and refactoring code to group entities of physical devices. This indicates a focus on improving existing integrations and expanding device support within the Home Assistant ecosystem.
raspberry-pipythonhouseprivacy-firstasyncio
Z-Wave-Me/Z-Way-JNI-Wrapper
Jun 2023 - Nov 2024
Contributions:5 releases, 46 pushes, 3 tags in 1 year 5 months
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