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schalkventer/README.md

Hello internet-friend!

I'm a developer/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.

  • 🛸 Co-administrator at ZA Tech, a 15 000+ member Slack workspace used by the South Africa tech community at large, and it's sister workspace ZA Product Design.

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

  • 🧠 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:

Talks / Interviews / Articles

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 5

  2. reading-notes reading-notes Public

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

    14 1

  3. zod-dev zod-dev Public

    🦞 A tiny abstract that conditionally disables Zod run-time parsing while preserving type inference

    TypeScript 2 1

  4. no-more-ipsum no-more-ipsum Public

    🚫 Free content and API endpoints that you are welcome to used instead of non-descript placeholder content.

    3

  5. jsbomb jsbomb Public

    💣 Example progressive web app built with vanilla JavaScript

    JavaScript 2

  6. epic-stream-app epic-stream-app Public

    📺 Documented example of a React project structure using Vite and React.

    JavaScript 1 1