Dylan Vorster
Platform Architect
Englewood, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDylan Vorster is a Platform Architect and senior engineer with 11 years of experience building reconfigurable enterprise systems, currently leading platform work at JourneyApps after seven years as Chief Software Architect at Eezipay. He specializes in creating complex, dynamically reprogrammable workflows and UI-driven process tools that let systems be adapted at runtime. Comfortable across SQL, TypeScript, Java, PHP and modern infrastructure like Docker, Kubernetes and Redis, he combines hands-on engineering with architecture-level thinking. Dylan is an active open-source contributor—his work on the popular react-diagrams project demonstrates a focus on core front-end interactions such as zooming, selection and link management. Trained in Mechatronic Engineering, he brings a systems-minded approach that blends hardware-aware thinking with scalable software design. Based in Englewood, Colorado, he’s known for building “things that build other things,” favoring composable developer tooling and extensible platforms.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
NSC, English, Physics, Maths, ADD Maths, Computer Science, Music, Communication Design, 12, NSC, English, Physics, Maths, ADD Maths, Computer Science, Music, Communication Design, 12 at Elkanah HouseMechatronic Engineering, Mechatronic Engineering at Stellenbosch University/Universiteit Stellenbosch
English, Afrikaans
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
typescript10
diagram10
javascript10
user-interface10
typescripts10
react10
typescript-types10
ui-components10
json6
swt6
ajax6
macos6
jquery6
querystring6
swing6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
projectstorm/react-diagrams
Jun 2017 - Jan 2023
a super simple, no-nonsense diagramming library written in react that just works
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 27 reviews, 505 commits in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Dylan made significant changes to the `DiagramWidget.tsx` and related widget components, specifically focusing on implementing mouse event handling for zooming, selecting, and dragging elements within the diagram. The user also introduced features such as adding and connecting links, demonstrating a focus on core UI interactions. The commits show the user is working on the main components of the project, that are rendering the diagrams.
sequence-diagramgraph-editordiagramdragdiagramming-library
projectstorm/react-canvas
Mar 2018 - Jan 2023
A pluggable layout and graphics system aimed at powering desktop publishing as well as storm-react-diagrams
Contributions:47 commits, 1 PR, 33 pushes in 4 years 10 months
diagramsreactpublishinglayoutreact-storm-diagrams
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