Laurent Arnoud
Senior Software Engineer at Upsun (formerly Platform.sh)
France
Summary
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Top SchoolLaurent Arnoud is a Senior Software Engineer based in France with 16 years of experience building reliable back-end systems, test automation, and DevOps workflows, primarily in Ruby but fluent across Python, Go, Lua, Shell and JavaScript. He blends strong Linux systems knowledge with a passion for quality assurance and open-source contribution, having improved both RubyGems.org back-end logic and front-end accessibility/layout on prominent sites like rust-lang.org and ruby-lang.org. At Upsun (formerly Platform.sh) he continues to drive production-grade engineering practices while exploring Rust, Elixir and Nix to modernize tooling. Notably, his contributions to projects like exa show attention to robust error handling and test infrastructure, reflecting a pragmatic focus on maintainability and developer experience.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Licence Professionnelle - Systèmes informatiques et logiciels, Computer Science, Licence Professionnelle - Systèmes informatiques et logiciels, Computer Science at Université Paris Descartes
English, French
Github Skills (33)
accessibility10
site-design10
rubygems10
testing10
css10
ruby10
front-end-development10
command-line10
html10
activerecord10
error-handling10
rust10
package-manager10
website-design10
redis9
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
rubygems/rubygems.org
Dec 2014 - Jun 2019
The Ruby community's gem hosting service.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:34 commits, 21 PRs, 65 comments in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Laurent primarily contributed to the back-end of the RubyGems.org service, making improvements to the models and core functionalities. The commits show refactoring of existing code, such as cleaning up `current_rubygems_release` and `owned_by?` methods. They also updated queries, orders, and fixed deprecated methods, while also addressing dependencies issues. Moreover, they made additions to the system by adding scopes and fixing locales.
ruby-on-railshostingrubygemsrailsruby
ruby/www.ruby-lang.org
Sep 2014 - Apr 2019
Source of the https://www.ruby-lang.org website.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:33 commits, 20 PRs, 17 comments in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Laurent primarily contributed to the front-end of the Ruby website. They addressed HTML markup issues, fixing invalid tags and obsolete attributes. Furthermore, the user added metadata elements like title and charset and updated the index page to ensure proper rendering for crawlers and browsers. The user also made CSS updates.
herokulangrubyjekyllruby-lang
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