schalkventer

💻 Software Engineering | 🎨 Interaction Design | 📚 Mentoring and Teaching | 🧠 Destigmatizing Mental Illness

Funding Links: https://github.com/sponsors/schalkventer

Name: Schalk Venter
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Company: Co-founder at @fedsa
Kind: user
Followers: 387
Following: 526
Total stars: 179
Repositories count: 182
Created at: 2022-11-11T00:20:34.604Z
Updated at: 2025-03-06T17:50:11.483Z
Last synced at: 2025-03-06T17:50:11.483Z

GitHub Sponsors Profile

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.