TaktX · AI-enhanced engineering · the Netherlands
TaktX is Eric Hendriks' company. We build an open-source process engine, benchmark speech recognition on small hardware, and are working on a voice companion for the home. Alongside that, we consult on IT projects for Dutch organisations.
Open-source infrastructure, independent measurement and products for the home. Different in shape, the same in approach: build what is missing, without needless complexity.
A BPMN process engine that runs entirely on Kafka. No database, no central bottleneck: scales per partition and handles tens of thousands of process instances per second on ordinary hardware.
# clone and run (Docker required) $ git clone https://github.com/taktx-io/quickstart $ docker compose up -d
Global Open Edge Speech Benchmark. Objective, reproducible measurements of speech recognition running locally — on a Raspberry Pi, a Mac or an NVIDIA card. Every number verified by hash and signature.
A small, round device for the table. No screen, no buttons — you talk to it. Babbl helps older people understand letters, remember appointments and get things arranged. Alone, together, or with a little help.
Real places, 3D-printed, on your wall. Landscapes, routes and photos on a grid of tiles — a travel memory you can touch.
By invitation. More to come.
Thirty years of backend, Java and process automation — applied where it has to work.
Eric works as an independent solution architect, Java engineer and BPMN consultant. Assignments run through The Future Group, a collective of some 350 independent IT professionals who share knowledge, work and experience. Independent Together.
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Earlier, among others: Thales, Royal Netherlands Army and Air Force, NATO NC3A, NXP and Ericsson.
Eric Hendriks has been building software that has to keep working since 1995. He started with embedded systems at Ericsson and Vitatron, moved on to architecture and Java development for defence and NATO, and has spent the last fifteen years on distributed backend systems at, among others, Dutch Railways, the Chamber of Commerce, the Dutch Police, Google and Rabobank.
His approach is practical and grounded: understand what an organisation really needs, pick the simplest architecture that can carry it, then build it well. In recent years that also means working with AI agents for design, build, test and review — not as an experiment, but as the everyday way of working.
Since 2025, TaktX is where his own products and consulting come together. Eric occasionally writes about his work on Medium.
Email is quickest. For Flow questions GitHub is the place; for assignments, LinkedIn.