Schalk Venter schalkventer

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.

👪 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.

📚 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.

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