Dave Van Herten
Principal Platform Architect
Burlington, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDave Van Herten is a Principal Platform Architect with nine years of focused experience building scalable, event-driven platforms for performance marketing at Fluent, Inc. He combines hands‑on .NET development with domain-driven design and a knack for asking the right questions to uncover root causes and prevent roadblocks. As a former development manager he has grown an internal platform from inception to production, ensuring low-latency processing of large event streams and high operational availability. Dave contributes to open-source tooling—enhancing the popular GuardClauses library with new extensions, tests, and documentation—bringing test-driven discipline to shared code. Based in Burlington, Ontario, he balances technical leadership with a practical orientation toward developer productivity and automation. Outside work he builds video games with his daughter, reflecting a long-term passion for creating maintainable, enjoyable software.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Programming, Computer Programming at Sheridan College
English
Stackoverflow
1,573reputation
89kreached
30answers
4questions
entity-framework-core
top-5%
Github Skills (19)
unit-testing10
net10
dotnet-new10
dotnet10
xunit10
asp-net10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
entity-framework-core9
asp-net-identity9
design-patterns9
code-cleanup8
database6
seeding6
entity-framework6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ardalis/GuardClauses
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
A simple package with guard clause extensions.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:7 commits, 5 PRs, 9 comments in 9 days
Contributions summary:Dave primarily focused on enhancing the `guardclauses` library by introducing new guard clause extension methods. They added a `Foo` extension and integrated unit tests for both the new and existing guard clauses. The user also refactored the code to improve code quality and added XML documentation. Additionally, they integrated test-driven development practices by adding unit tests to ensure code functionality and maintainability.
guard-clausedotnetextensionsguard-clausespatterns
dvanherten/swagger-identityserver
Feb 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:5 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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