Justin Van Der Merwe Email & Phone Number

Western Cape, South Africa

- Co-created and developed a tool for generating realistic seed data using an ORM-like API with TypeScript definitions specific to your PostgreSQL/SQLite/MySQL database: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@snaplet/seed- Created and developed an open source project for deterministically generating fake data from a given input:https://github.com/snaplet/copycat- Collaborated on the development of a tool for PostgreSQL that safely replicates your production database in your development environment by transforming sensitive information:https://www.npmjs.com/package/snaplet

Lead a frontend team of 4 engineers for a helpdesk product for large-scale messaging campaigns, including:- Facilitating alignment within the frontend team, between the frontend team and design, and between the frontend team and rest of the organization- Establishing ways of working for the team (e.g. automated testing, CI/CD, greenkeeping)- Developing new features and maintaining the product

Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Frontend Infrastructure Team- Created and led adoption of a GraphQL-based fake data generation tool for unit testing and accelerating frontend development- Co-maintained and enhanced the in-house GraphQL client used on researchgate.net Design System Team- Assisted in encouraging iteration on the design system with the design team- Prototyped new UI components and standards alongside visual designers.React Native iOS App team- Contributed to the foundations (e.g. navigation), built new features and maintained infrastructure for the app.Other contributions- Investigated the migration from the in-house GraphQL client to an open-source solution.- Hiring for frontend infrastructure and design system teams

South Africa

- Overhauled the javascript-based SDK for a flow building tool for large-scale mobile messaging campaigns- Developed a tool to extract translation strings from JS files using Falafel/Esprima, supporting large-scalecampaign translations- Contributed to the core development and added new integrations for a Python-based mobile messagingengine for large-scale mobile messaging campaigns.- Worked on an Android app using React Native and Redux for life mentoring for young women in India,successfully published on Google Play Store.- Created a web UI with React and Redux to import content into a CMS, facilitating the migration of livesites- Designed and prototyped a mobile messaging dialogue builder UI using Ractive and D3, including userpersonas, journeys, and testing- Built a UI with Backbone for creating mobile messaging campaigns, enabling non-technical users todesign and manage campaigns