Erik Baauw
Enterprise IT Architect at ING Bank
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolErik Baauw is an Enterprise IT Architect based in Amsterdam with over 25 years of hands-on experience designing and advising large financial and enterprise IT landscapes, currently leading architecture at ING. He blends deep consulting roots from Hewlett-Packard with practical implementation skills across infrastructure, information integration and legacy migrations, bringing a pragmatic focus on cost reduction and operational resilience. A former solution and principal consultant, he has repeatedly driven complex programmes for major banks and insurers, aligning business needs with robust technical solutions. Erik is also an active open-source contributor to smart-home and system tooling—helping extend the deCONZ ZigBee REST plugin to support many Xiaomi devices and improving Homebridge’s shutdown and logging behavior—showing a continued curiosity for embedded and DevOps problems. His background in computer science and early work in teaching software for education hint at a methodical, user-focused approach to architecture. Colleagues rely on him for steady, long-term strategy combined with the willingness to dive into code and operational details when it matters.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Utrechts Stedelijk Gymnasiummaster, Computer Science, master, Computer Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)
Dutch, English, German, French
Github Skills (19)
homebridge10
javascript10
c-language10
apidoc10
api10
nodejs10
cprogramming-language10
json9
ui-design9
home-automation9
webserver8
system-administration8
os-development8
open-source8
philips-hue7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
dresden-elektronik/deconz-rest-plugin
May 2017 - Jan 2023
deCONZ REST-API plugin to control ZigBee devices
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:120 reviews, 906 commits, 313 PRs in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Erik primarily worked on implementing and integrating support for various Xiaomi and other brand smart home devices, specifically focusing on integrating these devices with the deCONZ REST-API plugin to control ZigBee devices. The contributions involved adding and modifying code to support new device types, enabling functionality for features like door locks, thermostats, and lighting controls, and making improvements to existing features based on the specific requirements of the different models. This involved both extending the plugin to parse and act on new device features and fixing issues related to the general integration of smart home devices with the deCONZ ecosystem.
restrest-apizigbeeraspberry-pizll
homebridge/homebridge-config-ui-x
May 2019 - Feb 2021
The Homebridge UI. Monitor, configure and backup Homebridge from a browser.
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 29 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Erik contributed to the Homebridge UI by implementing critical system-level improvements. They implemented graceful shutdown mechanisms by integrating SIGTERM signals, ensuring plugins could properly clean up before exiting. The user also added a command-line option to suppress timestamps in logs and implemented a log truncation function, enhancing the logging functionality for improved system monitoring. Further contributions included merging updates from the upstream branch, indicating a role in maintaining the project's codebase.
homebridgehomebridge-pluginuiguiweb-interface
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