STEVEN VAN BLERK
Hello and welcome! I am a Frontend Engineer from Cape Town, South Africa. I have a passion for UI & UX, as well as creative coding. I primarily work with TypeScript and React.
JavaScript
React
HTML
CSS
Storybook
P5.js
Git
Node
Docker
C#
Unity
Jira
WORK EXPERIENCE
Precium
Nov 2023 - Present
Precium is an Africa focused payment orchestration platform where I form part of a small, tight knit engineering team. Since the team is small, my responsibilities cover all aspects of frontend development. My day to day tech includes NextJS, TypeScript, Redux, Styled Components, React hook form, Storybook, Figma, and Cypress.
OfferZen
Sep 2021 - Sep 2023
My work involved maintaining a successful recruitment marketplace built upon a collection of React JS SPAs. I worked closely with the design team to continuously improve the frontend of the product. My day to day tech included JavaScript, React, PropTypes, Redux, Emotion, React hook form, React query, Storybook, Jest, React testing library, Figma, and GraphQL.
Mainboard
Mar 2021 - Aug 2021
My work utilised Frontend React JS to build websites for clients. Standard features of these sites included highly polished landing pages, user input forms, news feeds, social media integration, and catalogues.
SAEON
Oct 2019 - Feb 2021
I was employed as a Frontend React JS Developer though it is more accurate to say my work was Full Stack. Most of my work allowed researchers to manage and view data. This included highly detailed and interactive visual charts, input forms, and an interface to allow users to query databases via SQL.
Brainwave Projects
Jun 2018 - Sept 2019
The majority of my work was Back-end in C#. and included automating data report building, usually from MS SQL to a webpage or an Excel export. Other work included an e-Catalogue site and a call centre dialler.
EDUCATION
University of the Western Cape
Jan 2015 - Dec 2018
Bachelor of Science, Physics