Melissa Kroese
Product Owner at GivenGain
Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolMelissa Kroese is a Product Owner with nine years of experience turning user needs into pragmatic tech solutions across operations-heavy and consumer-facing platforms. She moved from junior front-end development into product leadership at iXperience, then scaled product efforts at SweepSouth and now leads product at GivenGain, combining hands-on wireframing, technical story writing, and stakeholder management. Comfortable with agile practices, she blends a background in microbiology and music with strong operational instincts honed managing programs of 200+ students and TEDx event logistics. Melissa thrives at the intersection of business and technology, prioritizing lasting impact and continual learning while keeping product work fun and grounded in real user outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Matric, Matric at Jan van Riebeeck High SchoolBachelor of Science (BSc), Microbiology and Biotechnology, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Microbiology and Biotechnology at Stellenbosch University/Universiteit StellenboschUniversity of South Africa
English, Afrikaans
Github Skills (4)
subversion10
github10
git10
patch10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
MelissaKroese/ruby-quizzes
May 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 21 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
MelissaKroese/sinatra-website
Jul 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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