Franz Rodenacker
Senior Product Designer at Twenty57
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolFranz Rodenacker is a Senior Product Designer with over a decade of experience crafting user-centred digital products across fintech, marketing automation and SaaS. Currently shaping strategy, research and interaction design at Linx, he blends hands-on prototyping and usability testing with roadmap and competitor analysis to drive product decisions. His background spans UX leadership roles at Twenty57 and Digiata, where he paired user research and analytics to simplify complex enterprise workflows for banks and large financial clients. Trained in information systems and political studies, he brings a rare mix of analytical rigour and human-centred thinking to product problems. Comfortable writing UI code and managing projects, he bridges design and development to ensure polished, usable releases. Based in the Western Cape, he favours pragmatic design that elevates efficiency rather than merely speed.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate Diploma, Information Systems, Postgraduate Diploma, Information Systems at University of Cape TownMagister, History, Sociology, Political Studies, Magister, History, Sociology, Political Studies at Freie Universität BerlinCertificate, Monitoring and Evaluation Systems, Certificate, Monitoring and Evaluation Systems at Southern Hemisphere Consultants TrainingDiploma, Database website development with ASP, Diploma, Database website development with ASP at City VarsityCertificate, MS CRM, Certificate, MS CRM at College of Cape Town
german, dutch, English
Github Skills (73)
api-client10
swagger10
terraform10
paas10
openapi10
tencent10
api10
azure10
api-rest10
kubernetes10
api-blueprint10
saas10
json-api10
iaas10
editors10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
stadium-software/modules
Nov 2023 - Apr 2025
Contributions:136 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
linx-software/static-website-backend
May 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:15 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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