Niel De La Rouviere
Creator
Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolNiel De La Rouviere is a founder and full-stack engineer with 14 years of experience building language- and education-focused web products from Cape Town. He created HanziCraft and ReadCraft to help Chinese learners through data-driven character tools and level-matched short stories, and he currently runs product and development end-to-end. At Signal Risk he has been the sole full-stack developer for a high-volume subscription service, combining WordPress, email systems and scalable front-end work. A former front-end developer and engineering manager at Buffer, he brings both hands-on coding and team-growth experience. His academic background in hypermedia for language learning underpins a rare mix of linguistics, pedagogy and web engineering. Outside of product work he blends interests in music, gaming and blockchain, which often inspire unconventional UX and engagement ideas in his projects.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Paul Roos GimnasiumMPhil, Hypermedia for Language Learning, Cum Laude, MPhil, Hypermedia for Language Learning, Cum Laude at Stellenbosch University/Universiteit Stellenbosch
English, Afrikaans, Chinese
Github Skills (94)
displays10
sentence10
prefix10
fasttext10
wordnet10
corpus-linguistics10
corpus10
doi10
katakana10
linguistics10
buffer10
plug10
chrome-extension10
language-processing10
sentence-similarity10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nieldlr/hanzi
Mar 2012 - Feb 2019
Contributions:4 releases, 199 commits, 40 PRs in 7 years
chineselanguage-processingcorpus-linguisticsprefixnatural-language-processing
nieldlr/ethereum-gas-price-extension
Jan 2018 - Jul 2021
Displays the latest gas price from EthGasStation
Contributions:54 commits, 16 PRs, 11 pushes in 3 years 7 months
displaysethereumgasetherethgasstation
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