Erwin Douna
Senior IT Integration Specialist
Beilen, Drenthe, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolErwin Douna is an IT Integration Specialist with eight years of experience designing and delivering enterprise automation and integration solutions across government, banking, and manufacturing sectors. He combines hands-on Pega architecture and development expertise with leadership experience running a 15–20 person practice and coaching teams to improve delivery and quality. At Philips he led large-scale digital manufacturing and configurator projects that connected R&D, sales and factories, and more recently implemented the Rijkszaak solution for building reinforcement programs. An active open-source contributor, Erwin has contributed backend work to the widely used Home Assistant project—improving the Tado integration with tests and robust error handling—reflecting a knack for bridging product-grade systems with community-driven software. Based in Beilen, Netherlands, he pairs pragmatic system architecture and DevOps sensibilities with an interest in smart homes and automation.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Business Economics, Bachelor's degree, Business Economics at Hanze
Dutch, English
Github Skills (10)
apim10
api10
python10
home-automation9
testing9
home-assistant8
asyncio8
iot7
mqtt6
mqttnet6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
home-assistant/core
Jan 2022 - Jul 2026
:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:802 reviews, 190 PRs, 150 pushes in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Erwin primarily contributed to the Tado integration, focusing on enhancing and maintaining the backend functionality. Their work involved bumping the PyTado library, upgrading deprecated functions, adding test coverage, and implementing error handling. The user also addressed issues by reverting and fixing code related to fan speed and overall system stability. The user demonstrates a clear understanding of the core logic and interaction with the Tado API.
home-automationpythoniotinternet-of-thingsmqtt
erwindouna/python-tado
Jan 2024 - Jun 2026
Asynchronous Python client for controlling Tado devices. Currently specialized for Home Assistant.
Contributions:18 releases, 5 reviews, 151 PRs in 2 years 5 months
asynchronoushome-assistantpython
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