Hello internet-friend!

I'm a developer & designer based in Cape Town, South Africa.

I spent the majority of my time doing front-end development, product design, managing communities and mentoring others.

• 👪 Co-founder and Administrative Director at Front-end Development South Africa (FEDSA), a non-profit organisation (NPC No: 202015998708) that serves as an administrative umbrella for projects that advance the sharing of knowledge between practitioner and aspiring practitioner within the South Africa front-end development industry.

• 🔨 Maintaining and publishing free, open-source tools like Phasi and Faker Extra.

• 🌍 Exploring the intersection between technology, social good and civic-engagement with @jdbothma via OpenUp, Codebridge and the techforgood.org.za.

• 🐣 Exploring the intersection of youth unemployment and the critical programming skills gap as Workplace Incubator program-lead at codeX

• 📚 Creating the Bachelor of Arts in Interaction Design degree (NQF LEVEL 7) at CTCA with Carly Withtaker.

• 🎨 Teaching Web Development and Product Design (NQF LEVEL 5) at Academy of Digital Arts

• 🏀 Creating curriculum material and doing 1-on-1 coaching at CodeSpace

• 🦄 Freelance front-end development, UI/UX and product design contractor/consultant.

If you find any of the above interesting you might want to follow me here on Github - where most of this takes place.

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