About Me
I’m Arno Vanneste — a full-stack engineer with a strong academic foundation in electronics and artificial intelligence. I design and build secure, scalable platforms that integrate modern cloud infrastructure, AI-driven features, and thoughtful UX to solve real-world problems.
Background
Over the past five years, I've worked on a variety of projects across industries like identity and access management, healthcare, and educational technology. My experience spans full-stack development, cloud-native architecture, and AI-driven systems. Whether designing secure backend infrastructure or building intuitive front-end experiences, I focus on creating robust, high-performance systems that scale.
What Drives Me
I thrive where software engineering, cloud architecture, and AI converge. My goal isn’t just to build — it’s to architect robust, scalable systems that solve meaningful problems. I care deeply about clean architecture, technical excellence, and delivering long-term value through performance, security, and usability.

Professional Journey
2022 - Present
Software engineer
AE
Delivering technical solutions from complex problems across various client projects.
Read more2024 - Present
Software engineer
GO!
Developing a platform that provides educators with easy access to high-quality digital learning tools. The project focuses on creating a robust, centralised, user-friendly system to streamline the discovery, management and integration of educational content across various learning management systems.
2022 - 2024
Software engineer
Mediahuis
Developed an enterpise level CIAM platform. My work focused on enabling secure, scalable cross brand authentication experiences, working on both frontend and backend solutions, and managing cloud infrastructure and deployment processes to ensure everything runs smoothly and scales effectively. Took ownership of the data migration process, seamlessly migrating over 5 million user accounts across multiple countries.
Read more2021 - 2022
PhD Researcher
Augment Group, KU Leuven
Research on mixed-initiative explanation methods: the next generation of interactive machine learning steered with rich feedback of non-expert users. The overall objective of this research was to enable non-expert users to interact with ML models as a basis to improve the accuracy of such models and to increase user trust.
Read moreDesigning Visual Explanations and Learner Controls to Engage Adolescents in AI-Supported Exercise Selection
Publication, LAK 2025
Iteratively designed and implemented a control mechanism that enables learners to steer the difficulty of AI-compiled exercise series before practice, while interactively analysing their control's impact in a 'what-if' visualisation.
Read more2020 - 2022
Associate
Leuven AI Forum
Organised different projects such as TED Events & AI Ethics workshops to connect students, academics and industry experts on important topics related to AI.
Read moreEducational Journey
2020 - 2021
MSc Artificial Intelligence
KU Leuven
Focused on machine learning, data analysis, and the theoretical foundations of AI algorithms. Developed expertise in advanced programming and applications across domains such as information retrieval, bioinformatics, and computer vision.
Read more2020 - 2021
Thesis
LIRIS Research group
Thesis as internship at LIRIS Research group. Developed interpretable prediction methods for individual treatment estimation in healthcare, focusing on causal inference using machine learning.
2018 - 2020
MSc Electronics and ICT Engineering Technology
KU Leuven
Specialized in Internet Computing, with a focus on distributed systems, software architecture, and advanced digital technologies. Developed expertise in designing scalable and efficient software solutions, cloud computing, and networked applications.
Read more2019 - 2020
Thesis
WOW Solutions
Thesis as internship at WOW-mobility. Designed and developed a self-service kiosk for a bike sharing system using user-centered design approaches.
2015 - 2018
BSc Industrial Sciences: Electronics & ICT
KU Leuven
Focused on embedded systems, networking, and software development, with an emphasis on innovation, sustainability, and real-world solutions.
Read moreCertifications
Azure Developer Associate
Microsoft
Vue, Complete Guide
Udemy
Languages
English
Professional proficiency
French
Basic
Dutch
Native