Summary
Hugo Van Der Sanden is a seasoned software engineering manager in the UK with 29 years of hands-on experience across backend systems, site reliability, and product-led engineering. Currently leading engineering at NetSuite, he has a long track record of steering complex platform work—from running Google’s web-crawl infrastructure to rebuilding and scaling Perl-based SaaS products and founding a commercial application suite. He combines deep technical roots in systems programming and databases with practical leadership skills in mentoring, code review, and cross-team coordination to deliver reliable, secure services. Notable strengths include pragmatic refactoring and migration planning in shared-code environments and a history of championing testing and process improvements to raise engineering quality.
29 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer