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Wessel Verheij · Senior Backend Engineer
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Who's in the suit?

My name is Wessel,
and you're in my orbit.

By day I'm a Senior Backend Engineer at Dawn Technology, on the NPO Luister team — building the listening platform behind public radio in the Netherlands. By night I drift between code, philosophy, gaming, and the quiet craft of doing things properly.

Below: the practices I'm hireable for, what I'm building right now, and the rest of my orbit.

What I can be hired for

Five practices, one engineer.

Software Engineering

Backend systems, APIs, durable architecture.

DevOps & Platform

GitOps, infra-as-code, DX that compounds.

Cybersecurity

Defensive design and threat modelling.

Data & Insights

Pragmatic analytics, context-rich data.

Artificial Intelligence

LLM integration grounded in honest eval.

Currently full-time

I work at as a Senior Backend Engineer, on the team.

Building the listening platform behind NPO Luister — the public-radio audio experience for the Netherlands.

More projects

My orbit of projects.

What I actually work on after dark.

beatrax

beatrax

A local-first personal finance dashboard built on Laravel 13.

View on GitHub
OpinionsBox

OpinionsBox

Sharing and exploring diverse opinions.

Debate
AdventureWorld

AdventureWorld

PaperMC plugin for adventure-map workflows.

Explore
Where I've worked

Previous headquarters.

HuddleHuddle
UNIT4UNIT4
DataVisualDataVisual
Just Eat TakeawayJust Eat Takeaway
Visma VerzuimVisma Verzuim
TrengoTrengo
Get in touch

Head in the clouds? Find me here.

Want to work together, ask a question, or just say hi? Drop a note. I read everything.