Brad Van Der Laan
Software Engineer at Google
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolBrad Van Der Laan is a seasoned software engineer with 11+ years of experience building embedded, desktop, web, and AR/VR systems, currently contributing to Google’s AR/VR and Android XR efforts. He blends hands-on expertise in C++, C#, Qt/QML, JavaScript/Node.js and cloud microservices with a strong track record of leading teams, coaching Agile practices, and improving code quality through TDD and SOLID principles. His background includes shipping consumer hardware software for Focals smart glasses and migrating enterprise products to microservices at OpenText, plus architecting projection and tiled-display systems at Christie. An INFP who favors elegant, creative solutions, he also founded a small solutions firm and maintains a long-standing personal blog that reflects his design-minded approach to engineering. Notably, his early career automation work at scale (3000+ systems) demonstrates a practical knack for tooling and operational reliability beyond pure development.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering Technology, Computer Engineering, Microprocessor/Micro-controller design, Analog/Digital Electrical Fundamentals, Computer Engineering Technology, Computer Engineering, Microprocessor/Micro-controller design, Analog/Digital Electrical Fundamentals at Conestoga CollegeSutton District high School
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Github Skills (62)
hierarchical10
command-line-arguments10
swagger-jsdoc9
environment-variables9
nconf9
atomic9
jsdoc8
nodejs8
mvc-framework8
realtime7
javascript7
object-model7
mvc7
specification7
docker-registry7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bvanderlaan/docker-registry-frontend
Jun 2018 - Aug 2023
Browse and modify your Docker registry in a browser.
Contributions:53 pushes, 18 branches, 2 tags in 5 years 3 months
browsermodifydockerbrowsedocker-registry
bvanderlaan/nconf-secrets
May 2019 - May 2022
A container secrets store for nconf
Contributions:2 releases, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 2 years 11 months
containersseccompsecuritynconfdocker
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