Hennie Brink
Director at Gaggle - Flight Recorder
Gauteng, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolHennie Brink is a seasoned technology leader and founder with 11 years of experience building scalable, production-grade software and cloud architectures. As Director at Viszen he architects ML-driven document processing pipelines that handle millions of documents and leads DevOps, infrastructure and R&D efforts. He also founded Gaggle, a niche flight-recording app for paragliding and paramotor pilots, combining his aviation passion with product strategy, marketing and hands-on development. Earlier roles as Solutions Architect and Technical Lead at Entelect saw him design Azure-based enterprise systems, mentor engineers, and drive learning initiatives that boosted internal participation during remote work. He contributes to open-source mobile tooling—enhancing Android foreground location support for the widely used flutter-geolocator plugin—demonstrating a pragmatic full-stack and mobile background. Known for balancing technical depth with business acumen, he thrives on solving complex domain problems and turning them into reliable, user-focused products.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.sc, Information Technology, B.sc, Information Technology at North-West University / Noordwes-Universiteit
Github Skills (14)
javas10
location-services10
flutter-game10
android10
flutter-apps10
java10
geolocation10
flutter10
dart9
android-studio9
ios8
mobile8
android-developers8
android-developer8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Baseflow/flutter-geolocator
Feb 2022 - Oct 2022
Android and iOS Geolocation plugin for Flutter
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:6 reviews, 10 commits, 17 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Hennie primarily focused on enhancing the Android platform support for the Flutter geolocator plugin. They added foreground location service functionality, enabling the app to receive location updates while running in the background. The user also addressed bug fixes and made improvements to service unbinding. The work included code modifications to Java files related to location service and plugin implementations.
geodartandroidflutter-plugingeolocator-plugin
Wackymax/CPOrm
Mar 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:37 releases, 142 commits, 153 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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