I do not just advise. I build.
You get no intermediary and no strategy deck, but the person who writes the code and brings the workflows to production.
About me
Ex-CTO, SaaS founder. Hands-on again today.
I am Henrik Lippke, a creative technologist from Hamburg. I have built and led tech teams, founded my own products, and today I build again myself: automation with n8n, data flows and AI that runs in daily business.
- 25+
- years of programming experience
- 15+
- years of professional software development
- 50
- people led as Head of Tech
- 1,000+
- users of our n8n tool CustomJS
More than 15 years of professional software development, from hands-on coding to leading a tech organisation. As Head of Technology at a Hamburg fintech I built a team of around 50 people across three locations while the company grew from 5 to more than 200 employees. So I know both sides: building things myself and enabling others to build.
After that I built a start-up as co-founder and CTO and founded my own SaaS products, which I still build and operate on AWS myself today. That shapes how I work: I want systems that run in production, not slides that look good.
Today I work with TechnologyCircle in two directions. On one side, automation with n8n, data and Claude in enterprises, most recently banking connections and SAP integrations. On the other side, special projects directly with the C-level: when things need to move fast, nobody knows yet what exactly is needed, or a technical topic is stuck. There I do not just advise, I build.
Technically I have been working cloud-native on AWS for more than ten years, with Node.js and TypeScript, from frontend through serverless and containers to operations and monitoring. I like owning a system end to end rather than just one layer of it.
How I work
Three things you can count on.
Handover instead of dependency
Documentation, naming conventions, review process, training. The goal is that your team can do it themselves afterwards and only calls me when it is worth it.
If it does not fit, I say so
Some processes belong in classic code, some in a product that already exists, some should be left alone. I sell solutions, not a tool.
Milestones
From raw sockets in C to AI agents in production.
- 2024
TechnologyCircle and own products
Automation with n8n, data and AI for enterprises. Alongside, CustomJS and loopthink.ai, which I build and operate on AWS myself.
- 2022
Co-founder and CTO, Smace
Start-up for digitising workflows that involve many people. Business angel round in early 2023.
- 2015
Head of Technology, Exporo
Joined as the first developer, then built and led the entire software development department: around 50 people across three European locations, while the company grew from 5 to more than 200 employees.
- 2012
Freelancer in the agency world
Several years of software development for large international brands.
- 2007
University of the Arts Bremen
Studied digital media. In parallel, interactive installations for automotive showrooms and trade fairs, and light shows for musicians I toured the world with.
- 2000
The beginning
Learned to program Unix raw sockets in C as a teenager and published my first scripts and tutorials internationally.
Own products
I do not only build for clients, but also for the market.
Building and operating tools for n8n, Make and AI agents yourself means knowing the ecosystem from the inside, including its limits and how to work around them.
- CustomJS
JavaScript with NPM modules, PDF generation and screenshots right inside your n8n or Make workflow. Several thousand users, operated by me on AWS.
- loopthink.ai
MCP platform for enterprises: expose internal tools, APIs and data to AI agents in a controlled way, with workspaces, permissions and SSO.
Let us talk about your project.
30 minutes, no pitch. Afterwards you know whether and how I can help.
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