Summary
Sander Hagenaars is a pragmatic frontend tech lead with 11 years of experience, currently driving a full modernization of FTZplus, an Angular-based CRM used daily by hundreds of auto workshops. He combines hands-on engineering with product-minded leadership, having brought a new platform into production while keeping the legacy system running. Sander pioneered AI-first developer workflows at FTZ, building a multi-repository Claude Code setup of custom agents, skills and guardrails that orchestrates autonomous code changes, AI reviews and draft PRs with formal defenses against prompt injection. As co-founder of Init-Together he also migrates React apps to modern stacks like Astro.js on Cloudflare, accelerating delivery through AI tooling. He’s motivated by measurable user value and by making complex migration and automation challenges operationally safe.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Web Development, Bachelors, Web Development at Erhvervsakademi SydVest (Business Academy South West)
Danish, Dutch, English, German