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schalkventer/README.md

Hello internet-friend!

I'm a software engineer and interaction designer based in Cape Town, South Africa.

I general find myself within the worlds of front-end development, product design, managing of communities and mentoring others.

Currently:

  • 👪 Administrative Director at Front-end Development South Africa (FEDSA), a non-profit organisation (NPC #: 202015998708) acting as an administrative umbrella for various projects that facilitate sharing of knowledge between practitioner and aspiring practitioner within the South Africa field of front-end development .

  • 📈 UI Engineering Lead at Palmetrics, a SaaS platform that connects to Takealot as means to provide merchants with actionable data analysis, filters and programmable alerts.

  • 🎓 Technical Mentor at Global Employment Challenge, an organization that provides one-on-one support to Software Engineering graduates from African universities/colleges during their first year working as professionals in the industry.

  • 🧠 Co-host of Mental Health in Tech mhit.org.za with Schalk Neethling, a podcast about honest discussion around difficulty topics related to mental health in the tech industry.

Previously:

  • 👕 Product Design Lead at Pattern, a SaaS platform used by several large South Africa retailers in order to analyse and manage stock.

  • 📚 Co-creator of the Bachelor of Arts in Interaction Design NQF LEVEL 7 Graduate Degree at CTCA with Carly Withtaker.

  • 🛸 Co-administrator at ZA Tech, a 17 000+ member Slack workspace used by the South Africa tech community at large.

  • ✨ Product Design Lead at Umazi, an identity validation platform that provides the means to share verified identifiable data securely in a decentralised manner.

  • 👨‍🏫 Lecturing at University of Pretoria, Academy of Digital Arts and Noroff Norway .

  • 🏛️ Software Development for South African National Treasury as Head of Front-end Development at OpenUp

  • 🐣 Programme Coordinator at codeX of a workplace incubator funded by The Google Foundation

  • 🌍 Exploring the intersection between technology, social good and civic-engagement as Community Manager at Codebridge

  • 💡 Subject Matter Expert (SME) at Codespace, an Income Share Agreement (ISA) driven organization providing candidates access to a Software Engineering programme for free, which they partially repay as part of their salary only once employed within their field of study.

  • ✍️ Technical writer for CSS-Tricks, freeCodeCamp and Replit.

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For everything else and check out https://schalkventer.me.

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  1. schalkventer.me schalkventer.me Public

    🧑 Personal website showcasing all my hobby projects, talks, workshop resources, writings and client work.

    HTML 17 4

  2. reading-notes reading-notes Public

    📚 Personal collection of research, ideas and notes from product design and software engineering books.

    16 2

  3. zod-dev zod-dev Public

    🚦 A tiny abstraction that conditionally disables Zod run-time parsing while preserving type inference

    TypeScript 15 1

  4. react-19-web-components react-19-web-components Public

    ⚛ Example JavaScript/TypeScript demo projects that adds Web Components to React 19

    JavaScript 7 2

  5. css-view-transition-resources css-view-transition-resources Public

    ✨ Personal collection of examples, resources and talks related to the new CSS View Transitions API

    Astro 16 1

  6. frrm frrm Public

    🐇 Tiny 0.5kb Zod-based, HTML form abstraction that goes brr.

    TypeScript 29 1