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David De La Hoz

Data / ML Engineer

// dominican republic, do · UTC-4

Building in the open from Dominican Republic. Data / ML Engineer.

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Dominican dev building niche Home Assistant Bluetooth/IoT integrations in Python

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54signal

Dominican developer focused on a specific niche: Python-based Home Assistant custom integrations, including BLEAdjustableBase (BLE control of a Mattress Firm adjustable base) and ha-entergy (electric-usage data). The original IoT/home-automation work is genuine and differentiated. Caveats: over half the repos are forks, abandonedRatio is 0.4, and the high-star externals (hacs/default) are watch-list stars with zero commits, not contributions. A focused but lightly-maintained niche builder.

Authorship & open source

Solo authorwrote 100% of commits on BLEAdjustableBase
1 merged PRs16 commits / yr2 external projects

Contributes to

  • hacs/default584
  • rewardone/homeassistant-culligan-water-softener13

What they build

Backend48%
Data / ML38%
Frontend15%

Industry experience

  • Climate & Sustainability
  • Productivity & SaaS
  • IoT & Hardware

Signal breakdown

Originality42
Impact49
Consistency75
Polish52
Stars

2

top repo 2

Original repos

5

55% forks

Followers

6

On GitHub

13.2 yr

Live demos

2

Activity

Active

40% stale

Strengths

  • Verified author — wrote 100% of commits on BLEAdjustableBase
  • Open-source contributor — 2 external projects incl. hacs/default (584★)
  • Ships to production — 2 live demos
  • Consistently active, low abandonment
  • Backend focus with Data / ML
  • Domain experience in Climate & Sustainability & Productivity & SaaS
  • Core stack: Python, JavaScript