Jan Vosloo
Head Of Development at Wyzetalk
Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolJan Vosloo is a pragmatic technology leader and entrepreneur with over a decade of hands-on software engineering and product experience, now heading development at Wyzetalk. He co-founded Jobbie, a marketplace for on-demand local services, and has a track record of moving between startup boots-on-the-ground roles and architecting distributed enterprise systems. Jan combines agile management with deep front-end and integration experience—contributing to open-source work on projects like htmx to improve event-driven UI behaviors. Based in the Western Cape, he blends commercial acumen from a BCom in Computer Science with practical delivery skills across mobile, web and backend platforms. Colleagues describe him as a problem-solver who intentionally pairs innovative ideas with measurable delivery.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Commerce - BCom Hons, Computer Science, Bachelor of Commerce - BCom Hons, Computer Science at University of Port Elizabeth
English, Afrikaans
Github Skills (5)
html10
javascript10
htmx10
rest8
testing7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bigskysoftware/htmx
Dec 2020 - Nov 2021
</> htmx - high power tools for HTML
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 7 PRs, 8 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Jan primarily worked on the `htmx` project, focusing on enhancing its core functionality related to path dependencies and event handling. Their commits involved modifying the `src/ext/path-deps.js` file, adding support for custom events to refresh specific paths or elements. They also introduced properties to events, such as `successful` and `failed`, to enhance the event system for better error handling and success tracking. Further work included adapting the testing framework.
htmxjavascriptpower-toolsresthateoas
commspace/play-modules-excel
Mar 2017 - Feb 2024
A Play! framework plugin to help generate Excel file (using predefined Excel file as template)
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 11 months
plugin-frameworkpredefinedplay-frameworkexcel
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