Bob Schellink
Full Stack Engineer at BMW IT Hub South Africa
Centurion, Gauteng, South Africa
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Top SchoolBob Schellink is a Full Stack Engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining web applications, currently contributing at BMW IT Hub South Africa. He blends front-end polish and back-end robustness to deliver greenfield projects and optimise production systems, favoring agile practices and iterative delivery. An active open-source tinkerer, Bob has improved two-way data binding in the Ractive framework—fixing subtle checkbox and radio binding issues and adding tests—showing attention to edge cases that improve UX. Based in Centurion, he brings a pragmatic, user-focused engineering mindset rooted in long-standing Java expertise and a track record across consulting, freelance, and enterprise roles. Outside work he keeps coding sharp with personal GitHub projects he only digs into when “his kids don’t want him around,” hinting at a playful, family-first balance.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan UniversityGrey CollegeBachelor's degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology at Central University of Technology, Free State
Afrikaans, English
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Github Skills (9)
testing10
r-js10
ractivejs10
javascript10
html9
velocity6
vue6
vuejs26
java6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ractivejs/ractive
Jan 2016 - May 2017
Next-generation DOM manipulation
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 7 PRs, 104 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Bob primarily contributed to improving the two-way data binding functionality of the Ractive framework, specifically addressing issues related to checkboxes and radio buttons. Their work involved modifying the `selectBinding.js` file to handle binding interactions more effectively. They added tests and refined the handling of bindings for the name and checked attributes of checkbox elements.
manipulationnext-generationdom-manipulationdomdom-generation
sabob/ratel
Jul 2013 - Aug 2014
Contributions:86 commits in 1 year
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