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:

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

• ✨ 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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Talks / Interviews / Articles

• 🎤 DevConf Conference 2023: Mental Illness and Vurnerability in Tech
• 🎤 UX South Africa Conference: When Design Systems Go Bad
• 🎤 DevConf Conference 2022: Introduction to Web Components
• 🎤 NodeJS Africa Conference: The Good Parts: 15 Years Later
• 📻 Mycelium Network Podcast: Episode 007
• 📻 Kode vir Khakis: Episode 004
• 📺 Speaker's Forge: Not Alone: Mental Health, Vurnerability and Tech
• ✍ CSS Tricks: Using Feature Detection to Write CSS with Cross-Browser Support
• ✍ freeCodeCamp: A Guide to GraphQL for front-end developers
• ✍ Prototypr: Setting yourself up for failure

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