Ruben Arts
Software Engineer at prefix.dev
Cuijk, North Brabant, Netherlands
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Top SchoolRuben Arts is a software engineer with 11 years of practical experience bridging robotics, embedded systems, and modern software tooling. He currently helps build Pixi at prefix.dev after several years developing robotic systems and shipping firmware and automation at Smart Robotics. Ruben has hands-on experience with FreeRTOS, C/C++ for ARM Cortex-M, and has contributed build-and-release automation to prominent open-source tooling like conda-forge, where he adapted maturin-based wheel builds for cross-platform packaging. That mix of low-level embedded expertise and release engineering gives him a knack for simplifying complex build pipelines and making hardware-software integration repeatable. Based in Cuijk, Netherlands, he brings an entrepreneurial spark from co-founding RoboHub Eindhoven and a practical, systems-first approach to product development.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at Fontys Hogeschool EindhovenMechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at Fontys Venlo University of Applied Sciences
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Github Skills (9)
conda-forge10
bash10
build-automation10
cicd9
python9
batchfile9
rust9
script9
batch9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
conda-forge/staged-recipes
Nov 2021 - Feb 2026
A place to submit conda recipes before they become fully fledged conda-forge feedstocks
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:13 reviews, 21 PRs, 34 comments in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Ruben focused on modifying build scripts and configurations within the `conda-forge/staged-recipes` repository to support building the `rerun-sdk` package. They made changes to both `build.sh` and `bld.bat` files, incorporating `maturin` for building and installing wheels for different platforms. The commits demonstrate efforts to handle dependencies, build processes, and align with the rerun build configurations, including adding features like `no-default-features` and `--features pypi`. The user also updated the scripts to include wildcard installation of wheels and cargo-bundle-licenses.
condaconda-forge
conda-forge/result-feedstock
Apr 2022 - Jun 2024
A conda-smithy repository for result.
Contributions:2 reviews, 10 PRs, 10 pushes in 2 years 1 month
pythoncondasmithy
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