HENK BAKKER · CODEBAKKERS

Frontend platform engineering at scale — frontend‑to‑edge.

I build and modernize the frontend platforms large teams ship on — the shared foundation, the build and release pipeline, and the CDN edge it all runs behind. Currently doing exactly that for Essent, across a ~400-project monorepo serving six brand apps.

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Henk Bakker

What I do

  • Platform foundations — the shared libraries, conventions and boundaries a few hundred projects and a few dozen teams depend on.
  • Large-scale migrations — moving whole monorepos onto new framework versions, build tooling and patterns without stopping delivery.
  • Build & workspace health — buildable/flatten restructuring, dependency untangling, lint and module-boundary rules, faster CI.
  • Frontend to edge — SSR, CloudFront behaviours, edge redirects and AWS CDK; owning the request path end to end.
  • Security & sustainability — vulnerability remediation, dependency governance, and killing what is provably dead.

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Field reports from frontend platform engineering at scale — a short one most weeks, a longer deep-dive each month. RSS.

Contact

Building or modernizing a frontend platform and want a hand at the foundation, build, or edge layers? Get in touch.