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 (54)
timescaledb10
postgresql-extension10
ingest10
database10
postgresql9
timeseries-database9
analytics9
time-series9
sql9
financial-analysis9
iot9
sql-database9
pipelinedb9
realtime7
stream-processing6
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/home-assistant
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:8 pushes, 15 branches, 2 tags in 18 days
raspberry-pipythonmqtthome-automationpython-3
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