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.
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👪 Administrative Director at Frontend Engineering and Design 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 .
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📈 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.
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🧠 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.
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🦊 User-facing Software Lead at Foxtrot.
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🎓 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.
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📡 End-to-End Product Design at Octotel.
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👕 Product Design Lead at Pattern, a SaaS platform used by several large South Africa retailers in order to analyse and manage stock.
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📚 Co-creator of the Bachelor of Arts in Interaction Design NQF LEVEL 7 Graduate Degree at CTCA with Carly Withtaker.
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🛸 Co-administrator at ZA Tech, a 17 000+ member Slack workspace used by the South Africa tech community at large.
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✨ Product Design Lead at Umazi, an identity validation platform that provides the means to share verified identifiable data securely in a decentralised manner.
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👨🏫 Lecturing at University of Pretoria, Academy of Digital Arts and Noroff Norway .
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🏛️ Software Development for South African National Treasury as Head of Front-end Development at OpenUp
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🐣 Programme Coordinator at codeX of a workplace incubator funded by The Google Foundation
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🌍 Exploring the intersection between technology, social good and civic-engagement as Community Manager at Codebridge
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💡 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.
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✍️ Technical writer for CSS-Tricks, freeCodeCamp and Replit.
- Escape Conference 2026: Redefining our Relationship to Cloud Computing
- Future Tech Collective: How We Work Now
- SUGSA 2026: Mental Illness and Vurnerability in Tech
- DevConf 2026: Cloud Before The Horse
- Google DevFest 2025: Simple Sync Engines
- UX South Africa 2024: The Future of UI Animation
- PyConZA 2024: Mental Illness and Vurnerability in Tech
- UX South Africa 2024: Everyday Form Footguns
- Wordcamp 2024: The Future of Animation on the Web
- DevConf 2023: Mental Illness and Vurnerability in Tech
- UX South Africa 2023: When Design Systems Go Bad
- DevConf 2022: Introduction to Web Components
- NodeJS Africa: The Good Parts: 15 Years Later
For everything else and check out https://schalkventer.me.