Willem Pennings
Senior R&D Engineer at Vanderlande
Brabantine City Row United Kingdom
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Top SchoolWillem Pennings is a Senior R&D Engineer with nine years of experience designing mechatronic systems, simulations, and control algorithms for industrial material handling. At Vanderlande he develops advanced real-time simulation and emulation tools to boost software quality and system performance, building on prior work in concept studies and MATLAB/Python modelling. He earned top marks (cum laude) in both his BSc and MSc from Eindhoven University of Technology and has hands-on experience in DFM and PLM from earlier roles. Regularly sharing personal projects on willempennings.nl, he combines a maker’s confidence—“I can build anything”—with rigorous academic training and practical coaching experience mentoring engineering students.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Manufacturing Systems Engineering, 9 (cum laude), Master of Science - MS, Manufacturing Systems Engineering, 9 (cum laude) at Eindhoven University of TechnologyGymnasium Bernrode
English, Dutch, zweeds, German
Github Skills (17)
robotics9
sphinx-extension7
matlab7
candy7
arduino5
python4
sorting4
sphinx3
wifi3
home-assistant3
esp82662
matrix2
esp322
led-controller2
home-automation1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
willem-pennings/balancing-cube
Feb 2024 - Dec 2024
A cube that balances itself in a corner or edge using reaction wheels
Contributions:1 PR, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
robotics
willem-pennings/Candy-sorting-machine
Mar 2018 - Jun 2018
An Arduino-powered sorting machine that processes classic M&Ms or Skittles
Contributions:3 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
arduinocandysortingsorterled
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