Tom Puttemans
Application Developer
Brussels Metropolitan Area Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Puttemans is an experienced Application Developer based in Brussels with 11 years of practical software engineering experience, specializing in Java, XSLT, XML Schema and website logic. He combines a solid academic foundation from Vrije Universiteit Brussel with long-term hands-on work at Smals, and contributes backend fixes and feature enhancements to high-profile open source projects like Home Assistant (notably the dsmr_reader integration). Beyond professional development he volunteers as coordinator of the Belgian Waze community and previously led youth coding sessions as a CoderDojo lead coach, reflecting a commitment to community-driven tech and mentorship. Equally comfortable debugging unit-of-measurement issues or implementing MQTT autodiscovery, he brings a detail-oriented, privacy-aware approach to integrations and automation. Currently not actively looking for new opportunities, he remains engaged in open source and community coordination.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor, Bachelor at Karel de Grote' Hogeschool AntwerpenMaster of Sciences, Master of Sciences at Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Dutch, English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
mqtt10
iot10
python10
home-automation10
mqttnet10
asyncio10
waze6
maps6
underscorejs6
openstreetmap6
osmdroid6
api6
overpass-api6
javascript6
traffic6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
home-assistant/core
Sep 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:43 reviews, 7 commits, 12 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily contributed to the `dsmr_reader` integration within the Home Assistant core. Their work involved implementing new features like config flows and MQTT autodiscovery. The user also focused on improving sensor names and fixing unit-of-measurement issues for peak consumption. Additionally, the user addressed bug fixes, such as resolving state class conflicts and handling empty payloads.
raspberry-pipythonhouseprivacy-firstasyncio
Glodenox/wme-tabmanager
Nov 2015 - Nov 2022
Contributions:8 releases, 43 commits, 35 pushes in 7 years
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