Arne Peirs
Technical Employee at vzw Feest-, Firtel- & Cultuurcomité Zulte
East Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolArne Peirs is a hands-on technical professional with 11 years of experience bridging industrial automation and software development, currently resolving complex conveyor, AGV and stacker crane failures at Unilin while also managing operations at Waze. Trained in Digital Arts & Entertainment and with a practical background in woodworking, he brings a pragmatic, multidisciplinary approach to problem solving on the factory floor and in code. An active open-source contributor in the Kerbal Space Program ecosystem, he has implemented backend integrations like SpaceDock support for CKAN and contributed full‑stack changes to MKS colonization systems, showing an ability to work across C# backends and game-related tooling. Comfortable leading volunteer events and community platforms, he combines operational reliability with a penchant for collaborative projects and systems-level thinking.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Academic Bachelor Degree, Digital Arts & Entertainment, Academic Bachelor Degree, Digital Arts & Entertainment at Howest KortrijkHigh School Diploma, Woodworking, High School Diploma, Woodworking at VTI Waregem
Dutch, French, English
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Github contributions (5)
KSP-CKAN/CKAN
Oct 2015 - Nov 2022
The Comprehensive Kerbal Archive Network
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 315 commits, 81 PRs in 7 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Arne implemented support for SpaceDock within the CKAN mod manager, demonstrating a focus on enhancing the system's ability to fetch and integrate mod metadata from external sources. This involved creating a SpaceDock transformer, which parses data from the SpaceDock API and maps it to CKAN metadata fields. The user also added and modified C# files, specifically including those related to SpaceDock API interaction, the SDVersion class, and the overall transformation process.
kerbalarchiveckancomprehensiveksp
UmbraSpaceIndustries/MKS
Jul 2014 - Jul 2014
MKS/OKS Colonization Systems
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 2 comments, 1 issue in 10 days
Contributions summary:Arne primarily worked on the `InflatableStorage.cs` file, making several revisions involving the addition and removal of functionality. These changes included the introduction and subsequent reversion of resource capacity expansion features, along with modifications related to deployment and retraction events and animations. The commits also show the user's involvement in merging updates from upstream branches and updating the overall structure of the project, including its build configuration.
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