Gingerpeer | About

Soft-Skills

Confident working in corporate and business environments.
Skilled in conducting meetings and communicating with clients.
Well-versed and confident in communicating verbally or in writing in English and Afrikaans.
I have a great passion for software development and creating well-thought-out UX and UI designs
I am a self motivated individual that has practical experience working remotely and in person
I have a very cheerful personality and love input from others making me a great team player

Confident working in both the Frontend & Backend due to my experience working with startups and the necessity for a Fullstack developer within such environments
I am well versed in Frontend technologies including but not limited to HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, Tailwind, Scss, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Vue, Next, Nuxt, Redux, React Query, tRCP, Prisma, Firebase & React Native
I am also well versed in Backend technologies including but not limited to JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Java, Node.js, Express, Django, Spring Boot, Laravel, PostgresSql, MongoDb
I am well versed in the Unix Terminal, Git and Github for version control
I am also comfortable with working with Apis specifically Google Api, Email.js and Creating Restful Apis of my own

Work Experience

Zohe Enterprise, Polokwane, South-Africa
Practical Labour Relations and Human Resources Management Training
IT Technician for Zohe Enterprise
Date: January 2009 - January 2011
Details: During my final year in school, I decided to start work while completing my schooling to get as much experience as possible in the “real” world.

Zohe Enterprise, Polokwane, South-Africa
Labour Relations Official with Amalgamated Employers Association
Date: January 2011 - February 2014
Details: Whilst being the IT Technician for the above-mentioned company. I was given the opportunity to become an official with the Amalgamated Employers Association where my tasks included mediation, representation in arbitrations and consulting with a vast array of clients regarding industrial relations, a subset of Human Resources.

Zohe Enterprise, Polokwane, South Africa
Head of Creativity and Innovation for Zohe Enterprise
Date: March 2014- December 2018
Details: My role as an official had me extremely busy yet I always used my creativity to find new and innovative ways to combine technology and creativity into my daily tasks. I brought forth an idea to move our company paperless and with the approval of the directors I was given the position of Head of Creativity and Innovation alongside my duties as Labour Relations Official.

Self-Employed, Polokwane, South Africa
Online Virtual Assistant
Date: January 2019 - To March 2020
Details: After many years in the corporate legal sector, I found myself yearning for more creativity and decided to at last pursue a career within my passions. After careful disc list-insideussions with my superiors, I stepped down with the understanding that I will remain as a virtual assistant to assist in the transition without my expertise whilst I venture into my new pursuit of software engineering full-time.

Self-Employed, Sedgefield, South Africa
Software Engineer (REACT) Freelance
Date: April 2020- June 2021
Details: I have been a freelance software engineer developing robust applications for multiple different clients using different languages and frameworks to get the job done. However, I have spent most of my time building React applications.

Avant Garde 2332 Contractor(Remote), Sedgefield, South Africa
Software Engineer (T3 Stack) Contractor
Date: July 2021 to Date
Details: I have been a working at Avant Garde 2332 up to date working mostly in React and the T3 stack using TypeScript, tRPC, PostgresSQL, TailwindCss and Prisma