Michael Hendrickx

Current

founder at places.ae
Application Team Lead at Nakheel

Past

Enterprise Architect at Dubai World
Security Engineer at Scanit FZ/LLC

Education

'Karel de Grote' Hogeschool Antwerpen

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Computer & Network Security

Websites

Michael Hendrickx’s Summary

Experienced IT professional with strong, deep technical knowledge on wide variety of applications. Always interested in technical "no, don't think it's possible" challenges, particularly security / programming / integration related.

Michael Hendrickx’s Specialties:

Web application security, software development, information architecture. C, C++, Java, Perl, x86 asm, bash, Ruby on Rails, PHP, user interface design, Web application penetration testing. System auditing.

Michael Hendrickx’s Experience

founder

places.ae

(Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2008 — Present (2 years )

- Founded and developed the application.
- Developed the backend (ruby on rails) and the (prototype) javascript enhanced front-end.
- Developed the blackberry / mobile version of the website.
- Ruby code and SQL query optimization
Application Team Lead

Nakheel

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Real Estate industry)

March 2007 — Present (2 years 10 months)

Manage the servers, applications and the majority of network that bind the world's largest man made islands together.
Enterprise Architect

Dubai World

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2006 — March 2007 (11 months)

Dubai World is the group over DPWorld, P&O ports, Nakheel, Tejari, DMCC, Dubai Customs, Jafza, Limitless, and several other divisions.

Responsible for strategic planning, architecture and design of new secure B2B applications, including improvements of current systems and the implementation of secure mobile solutions. Architect IT solutions to meet business needs.
Security Engineer

Scanit FZ/LLC

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

January 2002 — April 2006 (4 years 4 months)

Scanit is the regional leader in IT security auditing.

I performed several security audits, penetration testing and code analysis. Furthermore, other tasks included physical security, social engineering. Telecom fraud, telecom systems auditing, forensics investigations.