Matthijs van de Water

Leading a team of software developers working on next-generation Electronic Paper Devices at IREX Technologies

Eindhoven Area, Netherlands

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Past
Education
  • Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
  • Van Maerlant Lyceum
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Industry
Consumer Electronics
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Matthijs van de Water’s Summary

Implementing Agile Product Development using Open Source technologies. Responsible for architecture and development of the entire software stack on the IREX Digital Readers. Leading a team of 10 software developers.

Experience:
* Successfully developed 3 consumer products from concept to market
* Prioritizing development activities to shorten Time to Market
* Software architecture and implementation in C/C++ on Linux
* Working with Electrical Team to optimize Power Management architecture
* Design of software for testing and loading firmware in Production Environment
* Build Management and Software Configuration Management using Open Source tools

Matthijs van de Water’s Specialties:

Agile Software Development: analyzing and solving complex problems, keeping the overview in a rapid-changing and hectic environment, cross-disciplinary communication, leading a small team, getting the job done.


Matthijs van de Water’s Experience

  • Lead Developer Embedded Software

    iRex Technologies B.V.

    (Privately Held; Consumer Electronics industry)

    June 2007Present (2 years 6 months)

    Responsible for architecture and development (from scratch) of the Linux-based Open Source software stack in the DR1000 and DR800 Digital Reader products.
    Leading the software team and growing it from 5 to 10 engineers.
    Implementing Agile software development techniques to manage changing requirements.
    Providing and requesting technical support via email for both customers and subcontractors.

  • Embedded Software Engineer

    iRex Technologies B.V.

    (Privately Held; Consumer Electronics industry)

    November 2005June 2007 (1 year 8 months)

    Transferred all software development activities from contract agency to internal software development team.
    Worked on software development and architecture of the iLiad eReader in C on Embedded Linux.
    Responsible for 8 software releases adding functionality, power management and speed improvements.
    Implemented automatic build environment for reproducible software releases based on OpenEmbedded.
    Implemented software configuration management system based on Subversion.

  • Webdeveloper

    HWI Group B.V.

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    June 2000November 2005 (5 years 6 months)

    I was their lead-programmer as a side-line next to my studies and worked on different projects like database and user interface design and programming applications for www.hardware.info.


Matthijs van de Water’s Education

  • Technische Universiteit Eindhoven

    Master , Electrical Engineering , 19982005

    Graduation Internship at Genexis BV; thesis: ‘Low-Cost CATV Transmission in Fiber-to-the-Home Networks’.
    Internship at the University of Melbourne, Australia

    Activities and Societies:
    Board member e.t.s.v. Thor, board member e.s.z.v. Boreas
  • Van Maerlant Lyceum

    19921998


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Matthijs van de Water’s Groups:

  •    e.t.s.v. THOR Alumni
  •    TU/e Alumni Network
  •    Linux Expert
  •    GNOME
  •    FOSS Professionals
  •    Van Maerlant Lyceum
  •    e.t.s.v. Thor

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