The Dutch Lab is the working name of Rutger Heijmerikx, an independent developer who has shipped software for everyone from ambitious founders to Fortune Global 500 companies.
He went independent with one goal: to put the cutting-edge technology usually reserved for large corporations within reach of smaller teams.
So they can move faster, capture real value sooner, and use it to stand apart from their competitors.
Years hands-on, from startups to enterprise.
Fortune Global 500. Trusted with software at that scale.
A direct line to the person building it, first call to production.
You work directly with the person building it.
Energy, finance, government and more.
Years hands-on, from startups to enterprise.
Fortune Global 500. Trusted with software at that scale.
A direct line to the person building it, first call to production.
You work directly with the person building it.
Energy, finance, government and more.
Complex, data-driven apps on a modern stack that stays fast and maintainable.
Fast, accessible sites that load instantly and are easy to update.
Interfaces that stay smooth and responsive on every device.
Reliable services and APIs that hold up under real traffic.
AWS, Azure and Kubernetes, provisioned and production ready.
Shipped in small iterations and looked after long after launch.
No account managers, no handoffs, no uncertainty about who's accountable for what ships. It's me, and I care as much about the engineering under the hood as the experience you see.
You work directly with the person building it. Decisions get made in a conversation, not a chain of meetings. Nothing is lost in translation between the people who plan and the people who build, because they're the same person.
No lock-in, by design. It all runs on proven, industry-standard technology, and you own the code and infrastructure outright. Everything stays transparent and well documented, so your business is never tied to a single person or platform.
Built to run in production and keep delivering value long after launch. Finished, not just demoed. I care about what happens once real users arrive, so the work is made to scale, adapt, and hold up over time.
The full stack, from interface to infrastructure, and back.
Having a soft spot for how signals travel and how they can be tracked. Here's the live air traffic passing over the office right now, within 167 km, straight from ADS-B.
