Backend
Building the services, interfaces, and data boundaries that keep products dependable as they grow.
Founder Story
Curiosity became the path into engineering.
Hendrik's path into technology did not begin through a traditional software engineering route. It began with curiosity, self-directed learning, and the need to understand how useful systems are actually put together.
Programming became a practical way to turn that curiosity into working products. Over time, he built software across multiple domains, moving between backend engineering, data processing, automation, web applications, and lower-level systems work.
The common thread is depth. Hendrik is interested not only in using a framework, but in understanding the architecture, data flow, and behavior beneath it. That approach eventually led him to found TradeOps and build the platform from the ground up.
2011-2013Technical training
Developed practical technical foundations before moving into software engineering.
2013-2017Architectural design & technical work
Worked in technical environments where precision, planning, and translating requirements into practical output mattered.
2014-PresentSelf-directed programming
Built programming knowledge independently through study, experimentation, and complete software projects.
2017-2020Business software
Built software around operational requirements, automation, data, and real business workflows.
2020-PresentIndependent software development
Delivered custom software directly to clients across web applications, backend systems, automation, and technical problem solving.
PresentFounder of TradeOps
Leads the product vision and technical implementation of the TradeOps platform.
Founder of TradeOps
From product concept to operating platform.
Hendrik is the founder and technical builder behind TradeOps. His role spans product vision, software architecture, implementation, and the operational details required to turn an idea into a working platform.
Product vision
Software architecture
AI-powered workflows
Backend systems
Data processing
Platform implementation
Software Engineering
Engineering across the full system.
The work crosses languages and layers, but the objective stays consistent: build software that solves a real problem and remains understandable enough to operate responsibly.
Data
Turning fragmented information into repeatable pipelines, analysis, and operational software.
Full Stack
Taking products from a working concept to a complete application used through real business workflows.
Selected Projects
Working software across different problem spaces.
These public projects show the range of Hendrik's engineering interests, from backend architecture and data systems to product workflows and technical tooling.
Founder / Market Intelligence
TradeOps
A market-research platform built from concept to implementation, combining software architecture, data processing, AI-assisted workflows, member delivery, and product operations.
View TradeOps Product EngineeringBargain Bashers
A software product built around practical user workflows, structured application logic, and a production-minded implementation.
View on GitHub Data SystemsMarineInsight
A data-focused project exploring how domain information can be processed, organized, and presented as a useful software system.
View on GitHub Backend ArchitectureCoreBankingApi
An API-centered banking system project focused on backend boundaries, business rules, and dependable data flows.
View on GitHub Systems ToolingBrowserBridge
A technical bridge for browser-driven workflows, reflecting an interest in automation, integration, and software internals.
View on GitHubUnderstanding improves when it can be explained.
Hendrik has created and published two Udemy courses, including teaching Pine Script and practical programming concepts. Teaching has strengthened his ability to break technical ideas into understandable steps without removing the details that make them useful.
View Udemy profileSoftware built around real client problems.
As an independent software developer, Hendrik has completed more than 80 Fiverr projects. The work has involved building custom solutions, working directly with clients, and translating business requirements into technical systems that can be used in practice.
View Fiverr profileSecurity & Systems Research
Studying what software does beneath the interface.
Alongside software development, Hendrik maintains an interest in understanding how software works internally. The work is practical and exploratory, connecting reverse engineering techniques with better vulnerability awareness, security tooling, and more secure software development.
Responsible Research
All security research is performed only on systems owned by Hendrik or where explicit authorization has been granted.
Security Research & Defensive Tooling
Hunter Extensions & ReconPilot
A local security-research workspace built to reduce noise without removing the operator from the investigation. Hunter explores an evidence handoff model for Burp Suite, while ReconPilot implements a Rust-based pipeline for collection planning, normalization, enrichment, graph correlation, prioritization, and reporting.
The architecture keeps external-tool execution and AI reasoning behind separate, explicit controls. Model output is treated as a hypothesis that must cite available evidence and still requires analyst validation.
View project on GitHub- Status
- Active research project
- Repository
- Public on GitHub
- Focus
- Defensive workflows & evidence analysis
- Languages
- Java, Rust, TypeScript
- Interfaces
- Burp workflow, CLI, Tauri desktop
- Safety model
- Scope-first, dry-run by default
What The Project Explores
Concrete engineering areas represented in the current research codebase.
Scope-first orchestration
Explicit include and exclude rules, dry-run defaults, and separate execution controls keep operator intent visible.
Attack-surface mapping
Structured collection, normalization, enrichment, and graph correlation turn fragmented observations into an application map.
API & JS intelligence
Local artifacts are analyzed for API families, schemas, authentication indicators, objects, routes, and JavaScript findings.
Evidence correlation
Routes, entities, trust boundaries, diffs, and workflow transitions are connected before an analyst assigns priority.
Analyst-controlled AI
Codex is optional, invoked deliberately, and used to form hypotheses from bounded evidence rather than validate findings.
Review & audit
Machine-readable outputs, casefiles, validation reports, and append-only audit events preserve how conclusions were reached.
Technology is a tool. Building powerful systems requires equal attention to reliability, security, and responsible use.
Hendrik focuses on creating useful software while continuously improving his understanding of how systems behave.
Contact
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