Summary
Jacques Uys is a frontend developer with 11 years of experience who blends a graphic design background with strong JavaScript expertise to craft responsive, user-focused interfaces. He specializes in React (and has built in React Native, Angular and Meteor), focusing on component-driven UIs, performance-conscious layouts and pragmatic testing practices. His career spans agency work, fintech and healthcare, where he’s migrated legacy systems, built reusable visualization components and optimized for constrained bandwidth scenarios common in Africa. Comfortable across the stack thanks to JavaScript ubiquity, he pairs creative instincts—photography and design sensibilities—with engineering rigor to deliver polished products. Based in the Western Cape, he’s equally at home prototyping pixel-perfect experiences and shipping production React apps in Dockerized environments.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Hack Reactor
Diploma, Web Design, Diploma, Web Design at CCS IT
Afrikaans, English