Hein Van Vlastuin
Full Stack Developer Elementor.com at Johannesburg Build & Automate with AI
Gauteng, South Africa
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Top SchoolHein Van Vlastuin is a Full Stack Developer and Scrum Master with four years of focused experience building features for Elementor’s widely used page builder and leading remote teams from South Africa. He combines hands-on front-end work—adding responsive widget capabilities, dynamic tag controls, nested components and a new editor welcome screen—to practical team leadership as a scrum lead delivering editor features. An entrepreneur at heart, Hein runs a WordPress consultancy, helped launch Emendis’s South Africa office, and co-organises local AI automation meetups to grow the tech community. His background in education and theology gives him an unusual blend of communication, coaching and analytical skills that he leverages to build inclusive, high-performing teams across the continent.
4 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Religion/Religious Studies, Master's Degree, Religion/Religious Studies at Utrecht UniversityPost Graduate Certificate in Education, Education, Post Graduate Certificate in Education, Education at North West UniversityBachelor's Degree, Theology/Theological Studies, Bachelor's Degree, Theology/Theological Studies at Evangelical Theological Faculty - Leuven (Belgium)
Dutch, English, Spanish, French, Zulu, German
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Github Skills (11)
html10
component-development10
css10
responsive-design10
javascript10
user-interface10
web-components10
elementor10
frontend10
front-end-development10
react10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
elementor/elementor
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
The most advanced frontend drag & drop page builder. Create high-end, pixel perfect websites at record speeds. Any theme, any page, any design.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2053 reviews, 65 commits, 647 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Hein focused on enhancing the Elementor page builder's user interface and functionality through various front-end improvements. They implemented responsive capabilities for existing widgets like the Icon Box and contributed to the introduction of dynamic tag controls across core widgets, enhancing user flexibility. The contributions included enhancements to existing functionality and integrating support for new components like Nested Tabs, involving extensive modifications to JavaScript and template files. The user was also responsible for implementing a new welcome screen for the editor.
elementorhigh-endperfectdrag-dropdrag
hein-obox/elementor
Feb 2024 - Apr 2025
The most advanced frontend drag & drop page builder. Create high-end, pixel perfect websites at record speeds. Any theme, any page, any design.
Contributions:101 reviews, 5 PRs, 757 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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