Summary
Jean Brock is a Senior Frontend Engineer with six years of experience crafting performant, user-focused React applications and internal design systems. Based in Somerset West, South Africa, he blends a designer’s eye with pragmatic engineering—shipping component libraries, migrations to modern stacks, and interactive experiences using Framer Motion. At doctorly he’s driven frontend improvements for cloud-based practice management software, focusing on testing, virtualization-based performance optimizations, and maintainable component refactors. He has a strong track record bootstrapping greenfield projects, integrating headless CMS platforms like Strapi and Storyblok, and modernizing legacy code across agency and enterprise clients. Known for "strong opinions (loosely held)," Jean pairs thoughtful code reviews with a penchant for developer tooling and automation. His background in email and mobile web development gives him an uncommon appreciation for cross-platform constraints and resilient UI implementations.
6 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of Johannesburg
English