Brian Van Den Broek
Software Engineer at Google
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Van Den Broek is a software engineer in Berkeley with 14 years of experience who transitioned from a PhD in Philosophy (logic and mathematics) to building production backend systems. He has shipped microservices in Go and Python across startups and large companies—designing a search API and backfill strategy at Zendesk, building a crypto payment gateway and ERC20 wallet services, and currently contributing at Google. His strength is applying rigorous, formal-thinking habits from philosophy to practical engineering problems: designing clear APIs, dependable backfills, and maintainable microservices. Comfortable across Scala, Go and Python, he favors backend systems and enjoys discrete, learnable challenges that reveal elegant solutions. An erstwhile academic and lecturer, he brings teaching experience to code reviews and knowledge-sharing, helping teams learn as they ship.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Philosophy, Master's Degree, Philosophy at Simon Fraser UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Philosophy, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Philosophy at McGill University
Github Skills (9)
python6
react2
org-mode2
emacs2
javascript2
typescript1
js1
functional-js1
functional-programming1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
vanden/code_challenges
Mar 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:159 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
vanden/ewere
Jan 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:368 commits, 142 pushes, 29 branches in 2 months
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