Schalk is a full-time consultant working on various personal, commercial, and open-source projects. His focus lies within the worlds of user-facing software engineering and interaction design – having done contract work for the South African National Treasury, The Google Foundation, Design Indaba, CSS-Tricks, and various others. He currently serves as the Administrative Director of Front-end Engineering and Design South Africa (FEDSA), and fills (and has filled) various academic roles where he does mentoring, curriculum creation and/or internal technical advisory.