Patrick Van Der Velde
Senior Software Engineer at Gallagher Security
Puketotara, Waikato, New Zealand
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Top SchoolPatrick Van Der Velde is a senior software and platform engineer with 16 years' experience building resilient CI/CD, build and release systems and leading developer experience teams across industries from emergency services to cinema. He combines deep .NET runtime and C# expertise with hands-on DevOps skills—Packer, Ansible, Azure, Consul and Vault—to turn fragile, manual infrastructures into immutable, observable platforms that scale to thousands of daily builds. As a people-focused leader he has hired and mentored engineers, run on-call incident response, and translated strategic requirements into reliable delivery pipelines. Passionate about robotics and CAD, he brings a practical maker’s curiosity to software problems, often surfacing subtle root causes in complex systems. Based in Waikato, New Zealand, he pairs PhD-level analytical rigor with pragmatic implementation, frequently shipping production software used by both customers and internal teams.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Mechanical Engineering, PhD Mechanical Engineering at The University of AucklandMSc Aerospace Engineering, MSc Aerospace Engineering at Delft University of Technology
Dutch, English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
matrix10
vault10
vagrant10
json10
virtualbox10
git-log10
rollback10
differentiation10
terraform10
graph10
modbus10
single-source10
dotnet10
packer10
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Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
nbuildkit/nBuildKit.MsBuild
Jun 2014 - Aug 2020
nBuildKit is a collection of tools and scripts that provide an easy way to set-up a complete build and deployment for a (.NET) project.
Contributions:21 releases, 1590 commits, 3 PRs in 6 years 3 months
dotnetdeploymentrevit-apinet-frameworkmsbuild
pvandervelde/zinger_description
Jul 2022 - Aug 2024
The ROS description for the zinger robot
Contributions:2 reviews, 4 PRs, 94 pushes in 2 years
cratebotros-humbleros2
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