Welcome to my GitHub Profile!
My name is Henrik and I work at BorderPass as a Software Developer with focus on DevOps and payments.
Originally from Germany, I got my Computer Science degree from the University of Toronto. I worked in multiple startups, was a teaching assistant for several CS courses and was responsible for iGEM Toronto's wiki page for three years.
Java, Python, C/C++, JavaScript/TypeScript
NodeJS, ReactJS, React Native, ReduxJS, NextJS, Fastify, TailwindCSS
I first came into contact with the world of software during summer camps in HTML, CSS & JavaScript at SAP in Walldorf, Germany when I was in 5th and 6th grade. Soon after I joined the Hector Seminar program for gifted students, where I had my first real programming experience with Java on Lego Mindstorms robots (leJOS).
My journey then continued with embedded programming: A friend was building on his analog model railway and wanted to build a cheap controller. We designed simple circuits and tied it all together with an Arduino at first, but soon switched to an ATMega1284p microcontroller. I still have fragments of the C code here on GitHub.
After that, I branched out in many directions. I did a bunch of web dev and admin tasks. Projects such as planets2D, BluffServer, and NodeDynDNS are also some of my earlier works. BasicCRUDApp, HuffmanEncoding, and no-pain are more recent projects that I organized better.
During all this, I had the opportunity to work with Virtual Forge, today a subsidiary of SAP system Cybersecurity company Onapsis. There I could earn valuable experience in developing a commercial product.
At the University of Toronto, I worked in several startups, research and as a teaching assistant.
Nowadays, I am a software developer at BorderPass - one of the fastest growing Canadian startups revolutionizing global immigration. I focus on DevOps and payments, covering security and platform reliability.