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schalkventer/README.md

Hello internet-friend!

I'm a software engineer and product 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.

  • 👕 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:

Conference 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 4

  2. reading-notes reading-notes Public

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

    15 1

  3. zod-dev zod-dev Public

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

    TypeScript 7 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 12 1

  6. frrm frrm Public

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

    TypeScript 18