Hendrik Klindworth
Executive Chairman, Midcore District at InnoGames
Hamburg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolHendrik Klindworth is a veteran entrepreneur and technology leader with 11+ years of hands-on experience building and scaling one of Europe’s most successful game companies, InnoGames, which he co-founded and led as CEO for nearly two decades. Now serving as Executive Chairman at Modern Times Group’s Midcore District and Chairman of InnoGames, he blends strategic vision with operational rigor across product, monetization and team growth. Technically grounded, Hendrik has contributed to open-source graphics tooling—enhancing texture support in the popular OpenFL framework—illustrating a continued engagement with low-level engineering challenges. His background includes executive education at Stanford GSB and early academic roots in Germany, giving him a cross-cultural perspective on product-led growth. Known for turning complex game mechanics into enduring live services, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with a developer’s attention to performance and user experience. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who moves fluidly between boardroom strategy and code-level problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessCarl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Github Skills (8)
haxe10
cross-platform10
game-development10
opengl10
frontend9
webgl9
html8
neko8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
openfl/openfl
Apr 2017 - Oct 2017
An open source library for creative expression on the web, desktop, mobile and consoles. Inspired by the classic Flash and AIR APIs.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 8 PRs, 6 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Hendrik primarily contributed to the implementation of compressed texture support within the OpenFL framework, targeting both HTML5 and Neko platforms. Their work included adapting the code to support Adobe Texture Format (ATF) containers, including cubemap support, as well as incorporating PVRTC and ETC1 compression formats. These changes required modifications to the core texture handling classes and introduced new features, such as support for different ATF versions and formats, indicating a focus on improving the framework's graphics capabilities.
web-desktopazerothcoredefoldjavascriptflash
innogames/openfl-mark
Oct 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:43 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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