Hi, I'm Calvin Hendriks.
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Self-driven, quick starter, passionate penetration tester and security consultant with a curious mind who enjoys solving complex and challenging real-world problems.
About
I am a Cyber Security Consultant and Penetration Tester from the Netherlands. As the manager of the Tech team at Cyber4Z, I make sure my team members have assignments, write quotations for our services and help clients solve security issues. Always strive to bring 100% to the work I do. I have experience in pentesting in multiple industries, including automotive, healthcare and the public sector. I am passionate about helping customers find the right service to solve their security querstions.
- Languages: Python, Java, JavaScript, C, C++, HTML/CSS, Bash
- Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MSSQL
- Tools & Technologies: Git, Docker, JIRA, Kali Linux
Experience
- Leading a team of four pentesters and security consultants; responsible for capacity planning, work allocation and service quality.
- Coaching colleagues in their technical and professional growth, encouraging ownership and independent decision-making.
- Improved the pentest process by analyzing the full workflow end-to-end and aligning sales, planning, pentesters and backoffice.
- Combines management with hands-on technical work so decisions on planning, quality and development stay grounded in daily practice.
- Concurrently coordinating multiple pentests, overseeing scope, progress, quality and alignment with clients and team.
- Actively contributing technically to one of the assessments, enabling timely adjustments for risks and dependencies.
- Translating technical findings into business impact, clear priorities and actionable remediation advice.
- Providing technical guidance to pentesters on technical choices, quality questions and their further professional development.
- Supported dev teams in applying Toyota's internal security controls, working closely with infrastructure, cloud and SecOps teams.
- Performed architecture reviews and security assessments, and guided threat-modelling sessions.
- Organized penetration tests, including scope and requirements formulation.
- Triaged high and critical vulnerabilities flagged by Checkmarx that blocked CI/CD pipelines, including technical impact analysis, exception review and escalation.
- Tools: Checkmarx, Confluence, Jira
- Performed black- and grey-box penetration tests on web applications and Active Directory environments for clients in healthcare, government, transport, education and critical infrastructure.
- Delivered reports with an accessible management summary, in-depth technical findings, reproducible steps and practical advice.
- Raised security awareness among clients through social-engineering campaigns, including phishing, vishing and mystery-guest visits.
- Performed vulnerability scans, including analysis, prioritization and reporting of findings and remediations.
- Developed new services, including a GoPhish server for phishing simulations.
- Supported penetration tests, wrote reports and presented findings to clients.
- Security Engineer @ Nationale Nederlanden: secured CI/CD pipelines in GitLab and developed Splunk use cases and correlation rules for threat detection.
- Inventoried IT infrastructure and SLAs as the basis for a disaster-recovery plan, including risk acceptance documentation for the financial application landscape.
- Cyber Risk Advisor @ Nationale Nederlanden: analyzed SaaS supplier audit reports (ISO 27001, SOC 2), tracked identified risks, and coordinated the rollout of MFA across all active SaaS platforms.
- Cloud Security Engineer @ Capgemini (intern): contributed to a new cloud security service from product design to market launch, implemented DDoS protection and a WAF on Azure and AWS, and hardened cloud resources with AWS Security Hub based on CIS benchmarks.
- Tools: GitLab, Splunk, Jira, Azure DevOps, Java, Azure, AWS Security Hub
Certificates
OffSec Certified Professional — 2024
eLearnSecurity Junior Penetration Tester — 2022
Professional Scrum Master I — 2021
Skills
Languages and Databases
Python
HTML5
CSS3
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Shell Scripting
Libraries
NumPy
Pandas
OpenCV
scikit-learn
matplotlib
Frameworks
Django
Flask
Bootstrap
Keras
TensorFlow
PyTorch
Other
Git
AWS
Heroku
Education
Enschede, NL
University: University of Twente
Grade: 7.7/10.0
- Cryptography
- Software Security
- Cyber Risk Management
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Enschede, NL
University: University of Twente
Grade: 7.2/10.0
- Software System (programming)
- Business Intelligence
- Finance for Engineers
- IT Project Management
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