Arnaud Etienne
Welcome to my personal website 👋 I’m Arnaud, a software engineer from Belgium 🇧🇪
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Skills
I'm a full-stack engineer with a backend-heavy focus, comfortable writing solid SQL queries and designing event-driven systems, particularly with RabbitMQ. I care deeply about test coverage as a tool for confidence rather than a box to tick.
I'm also at ease across the infrastructure stack, from Docker and Kubernetes to Terraform and CI/CD pipelines. Started from Heroku, now we here.
More recently, I've also been using AI coding assistants daily and keeping an eye on how the tooling is evolving. Not as a shortcut, but as leverage on top of solid fundamentals.
Beyond the code, I value clean and readable solutions, enjoy mentoring and thorough code reviews, and work best on teams that prize honest technical feedback and shared ownership.
Experience
Software Engineer
Working across a 10+ micro-services ecosystem (Rails, Quarkus, Angular). I build and maintain core parking booking features, public APIs, statistics pipelines, and infra tooling (Docker, K8s, Helm…).
Lead Developer
Led the development of Squarehub’s recruitment platform. I handled product decisions, architecture and day-to-day delivery while managing a team of three engineers.
- Managed and coached a team of 3 software engineers
- Defined product priorities and technical roadmap
- Improved internal tools and automation
- Oversaw data security and compliance
- Handled internal IT hiring
- Worked closely with founders on business needs
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack development on the Overloop CRM (Ember.js + Rails). Delivered new features, refactored legacy parts, improved performance and collaborated closely with product and sales teams.
Mobile Development Intern
Designed and built a cross-platform mobile app from scratch (Xamarin). Managed the full project myself: specs, development, testing, and delivery.
Education
Institut Paul Lambin
Cum Laude
Cégep de Chicoutimi
GPA: 3.3
University of Nicosia
GPA: 3.4
Interests
Outside of the terminal, you'll find me hiking a trail somewhere, on a squash court or on a ski slope in the 4 Vallées when possible. But let's be honest, most of the time I'll just be chilling with friends and beers.
I'm also a heavy reader, mostly sci-fi and fantasy, but not only. And still a gamer when I can, currently catching up on all the classics I missed while playing too much Call of Duty in my younger years.
