• Most people call me Hermen. Hermenegildo Martins Isaias is a mouthful.

Currently

• Frontend Engineer @ Superhuman (formerly Grammarly).
• Based in Porto, Portugal.
• Originally from South Africa.
• Previously Frontend Engineer @ Rows.
• My resume is here.
• I shoot on Fujifilm.

Talk to me about

• Web testing and scraping. I’ve spent a lot of time inside browsers.
• Mobile apps. Right now I’m building Kernel Chess, an app for electronic chess boards.
• Web apps that people actually like using.
• UX and design, if you’re stuck on something.
• Photography:
  • A self-portrait of mine showed at the One Shot Award, Summer 2024 in Berlin.
  • I made a zine about always running late, Be There in 5 Minutes (or 10…).
  • I’m working on a photo essay, Nostalgia.
• Climbing, mostly bouldering.

Social

• Calendly
• LinkedIn
• Github
• Twitter
• Instagram
• Substack

Past

• Grew up in Pretoria, South Africa.
• Finished an internship at Botlhale Village, then moved to Cape Town.

Jobs

• Rows - Frontend Engineer
• Enki - Fullstack Engineer
• Allan Gray - Engineer (contracted via Entelect)
• TouchFoundry - Engineer