Yorick Smilda
Hardware And Software Engineer at Chainless B.V.
Leeuwarden, Frisia, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolYorick Smilda is a pragmatic hardware and software engineer with eight years of experience building embedded systems, automation tooling, and backend services from the Netherlands. He has blended roles across electronics design, PLC/TIA safety software, and backend API development—most recently contributing RPCs and unit tests to the open-source The Things Stack LoRaWAN backend. Yorick moves comfortably between low-level firmware and cloud-facing APIs, having delivered stove controls, modular IoT sensors, 5G-enabled embedded Linux designs, and Vue.js HMIs for real-time systems. He’s experienced with CI/CD and GitLab workflows, automation commissioning, and AI-driven machine automation, bringing operational thinking to development. Colleagues rely on him to turn complex industrial requirements into maintainable code and testable interfaces. Based in Leeuwarden, he combines hands-on prototyping with production-grade backend contributions that few engineers span end-to-end.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Electrical engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Electrical engineering at HanzeHAVO, HAVO at Drachtster Lyceum
Github Skills (9)
testing10
go10
api10
go-testing10
apidoc10
protobuf10
lorawan10
protocol-buffers10
iot9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
TheThingsNetwork/lorawan-stack
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
The Things Stack, an Open Source LoRaWAN Network Server
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 reviews, 47 commits, 29 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Yorick contributed to the development of the API for the LoRaWAN stack. Their work included adding and implementing RPCs to list bands and other configuration-related functionalities. They also wrote unit tests to validate the newly implemented RPCs and other related functions, demonstrating a focus on API functionality and testability. The commits show involvement in defining data structures and modifying protocol buffer files.
ttnloranetwork-serverlorawaniot
ysmilda/advent-of-code
Dec 2018 - Dec 2024
Contributions:132 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 1 month
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