About us

Nabu Casa, Inc was founded in 2018 by the founders of both Home Assistant, the open source home automation platform, and Home Assistant OS, the operating system that turns your device into a smart home hub powered by Home Assistant. These projects have seen an immense growth and have helped shape DIY home automation communities around the world.

After being involved in the Internet of Things industry for many years, we realized that there is a need for a cloud service that aims to put users, their privacy and their data first. Such a cloud can only be built as an extension to a platform that does the same: Home Assistant.

With Nabu Casa we are building this cloud service and we’re calling it Home Assistant Cloud.

Our commitment to Home Assistant

Nabu Casa, Inc. commits time and resources into Home Assistant so this will be a shared success story. We want to improve Home Assistant, also for the people that are not customers of Nabu Casa, Inc.

The Team

Paulus Schoutsen

Founder of Home Assistant. He sees Home Assistant as the key to the open and private home that everyone deserves. Since 2013, he has grown Home Assistant from a script turning on the lights at sunset into one of the major open source home automation frameworks with a worldwide community.

Pascal Vizeli

Founder of Home Assistant OS, the open source solution to turn a system like the Raspberry Pi into a smart home hub powered by Home Assistant. Since it’s introduction, it has grown into the preferred installation method for the majority of all Home Assistant users.

Ben Bangert

San Francisco Bay Area programmer, best known for his open-source work creating and contributing to Python libraries such as Pylons, Beaker, Routes, and Kazoo. He got interested in home automation and began contributing to Home Assistant by starting a core rewrite to async. He currently works at Mozilla on cloud services.

Ashton Lafferty

A long time support presence on the Home Assistant Discord, Ashton is the first line of support at Nabu Casa.

Joakim Sørensen

Joakim has been a core contributor for a long time working on the Supervisor panel and different bits of the frontend. He is, however, mainly known as the creator of the Home Assistant Community Store (HACS).

Jacqueline Raaflaub

My roots live in the support area of software and hardware, I look forward to helping you in the exciting and great Nabu Casa world.

Uwe Bernitt

A product guy and hobby tinkerer entrusted with the mission to make Home Assistant hardware products even better and to up the connection to hardware vendors and the creators network. Uwe is quite proud of having led the day-to-day infighting between adblockers and a desperate multi-billion dollar industry that couldn't accept what smart people called "the biggest boycott in human history" and would refuse any available middle ground. He enjoys travelling, hosting strangers at home and attending heavy metal festivals all over Europe.

Pierre Clement

I am a curious and passionate developer and DevOps with a love for music, sports, photography, open source, and, of course, home automation. Privacy is one of my biggest concerns, I join the infrastructure team with this in mind.

Melanie Vizeli

She loves and is enthusiastic about using smart homes created by her husband. Working in the back office as a commercial assistant for the CFO. Writing invoices, processing transactions, and ensuring everything go smoothly and is up to date on our bookkeeping.

Keith Burzinski

Like many of the folks at Nabu Casa, I have a deep, personal interest in all things tech-related -- particularly home automation. As a kid, I was always interested in and tinkering with electronics; as I grew older, this interest expanded into computer systems, software and eventually network/Internet infrastructure. Over time, I wandered down the system administrator path, which eventually evolved into devops/SRE. After a number of years, a desire to get back to electronics and embedded development resurfaced and (naturally) I wandered into the world of Home Assistant and ESPHome. As I began tackling more and more projects with these tools, I began contributing code, as well. This work brought me to connect with Nabu Casa and now I am privileged to be a member of this wonderful team!

Andy Gill

Home automation enthusiast, Open source fan, aviation geek, DIY’er. Stumbled on the power of a smarter home by installing cameras that could provide alerts whilst travelling. Started the home automation journey with an alerting doorbell and grew from there. Had a diverse aviation career dealing mostly in hardware in field engineering, customer support, sales, business and product management. At Nabu Casa, helping to develop our own home automation hardware to build on the success of Home Assistant, with the aim to further improve the smart home experience.

Nikola Kovic

Nikola’s family was the first in his city to have solar panels and he grew up making recycled paper, DIY ponds in the garden, and sheltering many animals. He later translated his love of nature into building sustainable supply chains and business development. He is very new to the concept of home automation, but loves the privacy and sustainability that Home Assistant brings to its users. Nikola is proud to support HA from behind the scenes and work with a great team to distribute Nabu Casa’s hardware worldwide.

Krisjanis Lejejs

Friends know him as the smart home guy, tinkerer and the person who can help with computer-related issues. Krisjanis delved into Home Assistant and embedded devices in his teen years and found it a fascinating hobby to pursue. Avid self-hosting service enthusiast. With the experience in cloud services and full-stack development, he joined Nabu Casa to help infrastructure team with a goal of bringing smart home functionality available to everyone.

Carl Olof Albertsson

Carl is the Customer Service Manager at Nabu Casa. His lifelong interest in IT and gaming evolved into a passion for home automation after starting a family, where automation became both a necessity and a hobby. He has extensive experience implementing Zendesk across various industries, managing IT support teams, and streamlining customer service operations. As a long-time fan of Home Assistant, Carl is thrilled to now be part of the project he has admired for years, contributing to Nabu Casa’s vision of an open, privacy-focused smart home with a balanced commercial approach. Outside of work, Carl enjoys tabletop games, tinkering with homelab projects, and spending time with his family.

Daniel Bogisch

Finance professional with a deep passion for technology and innovation. Eager to leverage financial data to gain valuable insights, Daniel is dedicated to contributing to really any financial topic at Nabu Casa, recognizing it as a crucial backbone of the company. With a strong interest in the intersection of finance and strategy as well as financial forecasting and planning, he likes to bring the best out of Nabu Casa as an organization. Outside of work, he enjoys staying active and spending time outdoors, especially running, tennis and skiing.

Víctor Igualada

Víctor is a Software Engineer passionate about automation and outdoor sports like climbing and surfing.

Oliver Lorenz

Oliver is a software developer driven by passion and a desire to give back to the world. He has seen, implemented and played through automation in all areas. Joining the Cloud team strengthens this passion to the next level. In his free time, he is part of the Freifunk community, is close to the CCC, and is part of a music and cultural festival. He always aims for 300% to achieve 150%.