Hedde Van Der Heide
Partner at ICTU
Rijswijk, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolHedde Van Der Heide is a seasoned solution architect and integration lead with over 25 years of hands-on web and backend engineering experience, now focusing on shaping conditions for resilient systems, teams, and products. A long-time freelancer and founder, he blends pragmatic delivery across commercial, public-sector, and NGO projects with deep technical chops in Python, Elixir, Kubernetes and cloud-agnostic architectures. Recently he’s integrated AI into everyday practice—using frontier models and tools to dramatically compress the path from intent to working software while emphasizing responsibility and judgment. He currently leads integration and product efforts across sports-tech startups and government programs, translating complex requirements into secure, production-grade systems. Outside of engineering he coaches youth soccer and builds consumer and SaaS products in spare hours, demonstrating an entrepreneurial practice grounded in real user constraints.
13 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Technische Informatica (Computer Science) Rechten (Law), Technische Informatica (Computer Science) Rechten (Law) at De Haagse Hogeschool / The Hague University of Applied Sciences
English, Dutch
Stackoverflow
22,129reputation
2.4mreached
432answers
42questions
authentication
top-5%
django
top-1%
django-admin
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fastapi
top-1%
django-models
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jquery
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Github Skills (112)
fastapi10
python10
recaptcha10
django10
software-lifecycle10
model-view-controller10
javascript9
jquery9
angular9
django-admin9
authentication9
sentry9
autocomplete9
software-quality9
django-views9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Hedde/fastapi-heroku-test
Dec 2019 - Apr 2022
Contributions:7 commits, 4 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 years 4 months
ICTU/netbox_slm
Nov 2021 - May 2022
Netbox Software Lifecycle Management Extension
Contributions:13 releases, 69 commits, 1 PR in 5 months
lifecyclenetwork-automationnetboxlifecycle-managementsoftware-lifecycle
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