Koen Kanters
Senior Software Engineer at ASML
North Brabant, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolKoen Kanters is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience, currently at ASML and long active in consultancy and embedded systems work. He is the founder and driving force behind the widely used Zigbee2MQTT ecosystem—authoring core libraries, firmware tooling, OTA management and the Home Assistant add-on—combining deep Zigbee radio/firmware expertise with backend and frontend development. Koen’s background spans DevOps, embedded IoT, and full-stack documentation, showing he can move between low-level radio settings and user-facing integrations. His career blends enterprise engineering at Capgemini and TNO with influential open-source stewardship, making him a go-to expert for practical, production-ready Zigbee solutions. Based in North Brabant, he pairs systematic engineering with a knack for making complex wireless systems accessible to makers and integrators.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
HAVO, Nature & Technology, HAVO, Nature & Technology at Carolus Borromeus CollegeICT & Software Engineering, ICT & Software Engineering at Fontys University of Applied Sciences
Dutch, English
Github Skills (46)
javascript10
docker10
file-management10
lib10
addin10
back-end-development10
scripting10
plugin-development10
mqtt10
configuration-management10
typescript10
bash10
c1110
dockers10
mqttnet10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Koenkk/Z-Stack-firmware
Jun 2018 - Dec 2022
Compilation instructions and hex files for Z-Stack firmwares
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 6 reviews, 143 commits in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Koen primarily contributed to the CC2531, CC2652RB, and CC1352P_2 LaunchXL Z-Stack firmware projects, implementing modifications for specific requirements. They focused on code-level adjustments and updates, including enhancements for multi-casting, improved network stability, and adjustments to the system. They also focused on modifying the radio settings in the Z-Stack project, for example, power levels.
zstack
Koenkk/zigbee2mqtt
Apr 2018 - Jan 2023
Zigbee 🐝 to MQTT bridge 🌉, get rid of your proprietary Zigbee bridges 🔨
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:126 releases, 320 reviews, 2211 commits in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Koen's commits primarily focus on implementing and modifying functionalities related to a Zigbee to MQTT bridge. They made changes to address OTA update message errors, add and modify group functionalities, and improve the structure for the device/groups. The commits demonstrate an understanding of the system's core logic. They also added and removed environment variables.
mqttzigbee
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