Pete Van Blerk
Senior Software Engineer at DuckDuckGo
High Wycombe, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPete Van Blerk is a senior software engineer with 25+ years of experience delivering large-scale distributed systems and customer-facing web applications, currently at DuckDuckGo. He combines hands-on engineering in TypeScript, .NET and Azure with seasoned leadership—having hired, line-managed and led hybrid teams across the UK and internationally. His career spans high-stakes product delivery at Microsoft and Ericsson to building innovative business solutions as Principal Developer at NewOrbit, demonstrating fluency across the full software lifecycle from estimation and architecture to support. Pete is comfortable both as an individual contributor and as a people leader, with a track record of shipping complex SPAs and platform integrations for global operators. Unobvious but telling: he’s been sponsored into Ericsson’s Global Talent programme and has repeatedly shifted between PM and engineering roles, showing a rare blend of technical depth and product judgement.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
HND, Computing, HND, Computing at The University of Huddersfield
Github Skills (74)
switch10
spellchecker9
duckduckgo9
dotnet9
harvest9
versioning9
windows9
desktop9
spell9
csharp9
management8
linux8
nvm8
asp-net8
asp-net-core8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
NewOrbit/targetprocess-rest-api
Oct 2020 - Jul 2022
TypeScript API wrapper for Targetprocess
Contributions:9 reviews, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 9 months
apitargetprocessapi-wrappertypescript-apitypescript
petevb/petevb.github.io
Mar 2015 - Jan 2019
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
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