Andrew Blake
Vice President Of Software Engineering at Ookla
Guildford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndrew Blake is a seasoned software engineering leader with 30+ years of technical experience and over a decade focusing on cloud-native, high-scale platforms; he currently serves as Vice President of Software Engineering at Ookla, driving strategy and delivery for Downdetector and the Speedtest B2B portfolio. He leads small, high-impact teams that build real-time, multi-region systems processing millions of crowdsourced reports daily, combining platform reliability, data pipelines, and serverless architectures. A founder-turned-executive, Andrew previously built and sold SpatialBuzz to Ookla and continues to apply lessons from that acquisition to product integration and organisational scaling. He holds 15+ granted patents in network analytics and digital experience, and is exploring practical applications of LLMs to accelerate developer workflows and product features. Based in Guildford, he blends pragmatic engineering with strategic innovation to help teams move quickly without compromising resilience.
11 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
MEng with Distinction, Electronics, Telecoms and Computing, MEng with Distinction, Electronics, Telecoms and Computing at University of Surrey
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Github Skills (53)
historian10
python10
home-assistant-integration10
mqtt10
internet-of-things10
asyncio10
iot10
timescaledb10
raspberry-pi10
home-automation10
postgresql9
timeseries-database9
analytics9
time-series9
hvac9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
andrew-blake/evohome-utils
Dec 2015 - Jan 2022
Contributions:32 pushes, 7 comments, 3 issues in 6 years 2 months
andrew-blake/melcloudhome
Nov 2025 - Jul 2026
MELCloudHome - Home Assistant Integration
Contributions:2 releases, 27 PRs, 98 pushes in 7 months
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