Dave Vandyke

Dave Vandyke is a skilled Senior Software Engineer with extensive experience in privacy-focused software development. Currently at DuckDuckGo since October 2021, Dave Vandyke works within the Privacy Engineering team on the Open Source DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials browser extension and contributes to extension APIs in Chrome. Prior to this role, Dave Vandyke spent seven years at eyeo, enhancing the Open Source Adblock Plus browser extension and related tooling, and made notable contributions to the declarativeNetRequest extension APIs in Chrome. Earlier experience includes working at IRIS Technology Limited, where Dave Vandyke developed firmware for a Python-based SMS/GPS/GPRS module and re-implemented an in-house telematics protocol in JavaScript. Dave Vandyke holds a Bachelor of Science degree from The Open University, completed between 2016 and 2023.