Pelle Drijver
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Amsterdam, North Holland, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolPelle Drijver is a Senior Software Engineer based in Amsterdam with six years of experience building product-facing systems at major tech companies. He currently works at Google on transit and sustainability features, having progressed from Software Engineer to Senior since 2022. Pelle’s background includes full‑stack and backend internships at Quora and Uber where he shipped payment and wallet features, led performance-sensitive DB migrations, and ran A/B experiments that measurably improved user engagement. He blends hands-on engineering with product impact—launching referral and checkout improvements and backend components that handled millions of calls. A third-year computer science student turned senior engineer, he pairs rapid learning with a taste for practical, scalable solutions. Colleagues would describe him as pragmatic, data-driven, and focused on features that move both metrics and user experience.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)VWO / Pre University Education Natuur en Techniek / Science and Engineering, VWO / Pre University Education Natuur en Techniek / Science and Engineering at Cygnus Gymnasium
English, Dutch, German, French
Github Skills (6)
twitch10
twitch-api10
highlight10
os-independent9
trending9
streamer9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
pelledrijver/twitch-highlights
Jul 2020 - Nov 2021
An OS-independent and easy-to-use module for creating highlight videos from trending Twitch clips. Twitch highlight videos can be created by either specifying a category or a list of streamer names.
Contributions:4 releases, 55 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 4 months
twitch-apihighlights-bothighlightstreamervideos
pelledrijver/IJVM-emulator
May 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:41 pushes, 1 branch, 3 comments in 6 months
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