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.
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.
Happklaar.nl — the one I'm pouring the most into right now.
A focused tool that takes the friction out of [happklaar-pitch]. Built ground-up with backend rigour, designed for the people who'll actually use it.
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.
My orbit of projects.
What I actually work on after dark.
Previous headquarters.
Huddle
UNIT4
DataVisual
Just Eat Takeaway
Visma Verzuim
TrengoHead in the clouds? Find me here.
Want to work together, ask a question, or just say hi? Drop a note. I read everything.