Product engineering · South Africa
VDM Studios is the product portfolio of Nelis van der Merwe — designing, architecting and shipping digital products from first idea to production.
Selected work
A selection of platforms I've designed, engineered and helped take from a problem statement into working software.
Flagship product
A golf discovery and booking platform connecting golfers with golf clubs. TeeUp combines a golfer mobile experience with a full operational platform for clubs to manage tee times, carts, bookings, customers, payments and on-course operations.
React Native / Expo · Next.js · TypeScript · Supabase · PostgreSQL · Row Level Security · Paystack
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B2B platform
A diesel ordering and logistics platform designed around complex B2B operational workflows, including customers, orders, delivery locations, transport operations and white-label deployments.
Next.js · React Native · AWS Amplify · AWS Cognito · AWS AppSync · GraphQL · DynamoDB · S3 · Mapbox
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Butchery software
Cross-platform butchery ordering and delivery software with customer, admin, staff and driver workflows.
Expo · Next.js · Supabase
Workout tracker
A personal workout tracking application for creating programmes, logging sessions and watching progress over time.
Next.js · Supabase
Livestock software
Livestock management software covering goats, vaccinations, weight records and vaccination programmes.
Next.js · Supabase
Household software
A personal household-management prototype covering finances, groceries, goals, planning and shared household administration. An experiment, not production software.
Next.js · Supabase
VDM Lab
Experiments, internal tools and smaller products where I explore product concepts, technical architectures and new interaction models.
About
I'm a product engineer focused on turning messy real-world problems into software that is simple to use and practical to operate.
Have something worth building?
Available for selected product and engineering work.
