Bob Reynders
Back-end Developer at Cleverbase
Veenendaal, Utrecht, Netherlands
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolBob Reynders is a back-end developer with 14 years of experience bridging academic research and practical engineering, currently building secure, scalable systems at Cleverbase. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from KU Leuven and spent several years researching declarative, functional full‑stack and reactive web programming, bringing formal rigor to real-world architectures. An active open-source contributor, Bob has made notable enhancements to the Qtile window manager—improving layout robustness, window placement behavior, and user experience across X11 and Wayland. His background includes engineering work for ESA and industrial internships, reflecting a knack for low-dependency, production-focused implementations. Based in Veenendaal, Netherlands, he combines deep Scala and functional-programming expertise with pragmatic back-end development and a sustained interest in community-driven projects.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at KU LeuvenPBA, Applied Computer Science, PBA, Applied Computer Science at Katholieke Hogeschool Kempen
English, Dutch
Github Skills (8)
x1110
window-manager10
layout10
qt10
wayland10
python10
layoutmanager10
ws8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
qtile/qtile
Aug 2011 - Aug 2011
:cookie: A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python (X11 + Wayland)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 7 days
Contributions summary:Bob contributed significantly to the Qtile window manager, primarily focusing on enhancing layout functionality. They implemented window switching behavior, added options for controlling new window placement, and introduced a startup hook for the application. The user also added support for cursor warping and made the tile layout more robust based on testing feedback. Their contributions span the core layout logic and core application functionality.
full-featuredpythonx11qtilekde-plasma
tzbob/rowet
Jun 2018 - Jul 2022
Contributions:10 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 1 month
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.