Matthijs van de Water

Current

Lead Developer Embedded Software at iRex Technologies B.V.

Past

Embedded Software Engineer at iRex Technologies B.V.
Webdeveloper at HWI Group B.V.

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 2007 — Present (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 2005 — June 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 2000 — November 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 , 1998 — 2005

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

1992 — 1998