Niels Faber
Electrical Engineer at Prodrive B.V.
Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands
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Top SchoolNiels Faber is a software engineer based in Eindhoven with six years of experience focused on front-end and full‑stack work for smart‑home integrations. He’s an active open‑source contributor in the Home Assistant ecosystem, notably on alarmo and scheduler‑card, where he shipped UI/UX improvements, timeslot editing, actionable notifications, and an upgrade to Lit 2. Niels emphasizes pragmatic, maintainable front‑end engineering—improving logging, sorting, and compatibility with custom‑card‑helpers while adapting UIs across dependent projects. Combining a maker’s curiosity (“I just like to create stuff”) with professional discipline, he specializes in solving time‑and scheduler‑related UX problems for home automation users.
6 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor, Electrical Engineering at Fontys Hogeschool EindhovenVWO, N&G, VWO, N&G at St Vituscollege BussumMaster’s Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master’s Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
Github Skills (18)
uicomponents10
typescript310
javascript10
ui-components10
typescript10
user-interface10
userinterface10
typescript210
uicomponent10
lit10
ui-component10
javascripts10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
home-assistant10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
nielsfaber/alarmo
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
Easy to use alarm system integration for Home Assistant
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:63 releases, 17 reviews, 202 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Niels contributed significantly to the frontend of the `alarmo` project, adding support for siren and group entities to the actions editor. They improved logging for debugging and fixed sorting and made other minor improvements to the action editor, the sensor views and the code and general view sections. The commits also included upgrading to Lit 2 and incorporating support for actionable notifications, all while adapting the UI to changes in the alarmo-card project.
alarm-systemintegrationlovelaceassistantsecurity
nielsfaber/alarmo-card
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
Home Assistant card for controlling the Alarmo component
Contributions:14 releases, 44 commits, 19 PRs in 1 year 5 months
lovelaceassistantsecurityhacshome-assistant-card
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