Arnaud Rebts
Senior Site Reliability Engineer II at McKinsey & Company
Assesse, Walloon Region, Belgium
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Top SchoolArnaud Rebts is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 18 years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native systems at McKinsey, combining full-stack development roots with deep Kubernetes and AWS expertise. He has progressed from developer to senior engineering roles and now focuses on reliability and platform engineering while actively exploring a return to systems programming with Rust. Based in Belgium, he brings practical experience modernizing deployments and improving operational stability, plus a background in desktop tooling—evidenced by meaningful contributions to the LeftWM tiling window manager, including new window-focus commands and NixOS packaging. Interested in FinTech and IoT, he blends pragmatic engineering with a curiosity for low-level and embedded domains, and a history of driving quality through testing, CI/CD and infrastructure as code.
17 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
A.R.L.L.Informatics, Informatics at Université de Mons-HainautBachelor Informatics, Bachelor Informatics at Haute Ecole Provinciale Mons Borinage-Centre (ISE)
English, French
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Github Skills (15)
window-manager10
rust10
nix10
x119
linux9
configuration-management9
command-line-interface8
cli8
command-line8
testing7
git7
circular-reference6
circular-dependencies6
wcf6
data-contract6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
leftwm/leftwm
Dec 2021 - Mar 2022
A tiling window manager for Adventurers
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 10 commits, 10 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Arnaud primarily contributed to enhancing the LeftWM window manager's functionality and stability. They implemented a new command `FocusWindowTop`, allowing users to toggle focus between the current and top windows. Furthermore, the user provided a Nix Flake for NixOS, simplifying builds, and addressed multiple bug fixes and edge cases. They also introduced layouts per workspace, enhancing the user's control over window arrangements.
x11linuxtiling-window-managerwindowtiling
kid/docker-ib-gateway
Aug 2019 - Dec 2020
Contributions:13 releases, 17 PRs, 50 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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