Blake Vandemerwe
Senior Software Engineer at VidAngel
Lehi, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolBlake Vandemerwe is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building and scaling multimedia pipelines, distributed services, and embedded systems from Lehi, Utah. He excels in Python-first engineering—adding strict typing, tests, and performance optimizations to large codebases—and has a strong track record shipping video/image backends, data ingestion platforms, and DevOps tooling. Comfortable across the stack, Blake pairs a pragmatic eye for UI/UX with deep systems curiosity: he experiments with distributed systems, parallel computing, GPUs, FPGAs, and SoC boards in his spare time. His career highlights include designing pluggable metrics and message-store libraries, pioneering time-series approaches for constrained devices, and leading integrations with Snowflake and multiple SaaS platforms. An active open-source contributor and mentor, he blends QA, automation, and ops experience to make systems both reliable and efficient. Notably, he runs a micro datacenter at home and treats “impossible” scaling problems as a favorite hobby.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, 3.8, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, 3.8 at Southern Utah UniversityHigh School Diploma, General Education, 3.98, High School Diploma, General Education, 3.98 at American Fork High SchoolBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, 3.5, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, 3.5 at Utah Valley University
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Github Skills (200)
async-await10
tinydb10
syncthing10
computer-vision10
api-server10
synchronization10
nodejs10
filesystem10
python-bindings10
flask-admin10
python10
windows10
asgi10
nunjucks10
rest-api10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
blakev/gevent-tasks
Oct 2017 - Feb 2019
Task manager built around the gevent green threads library.
Contributions:49 commits, 6 PRs, 29 pushes in 1 year 3 months
threadsgeventtask-managergreen-threads
vivint/selenium-docker
Oct 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:113 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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