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chandrevdw31/README.md

Hi, I'm Chandré Van Der Westhuizen 👋

Content Program Management · Social media & campaigns · Developer & Product Marketing
Content creation · Community management · Technical writing · Open source
📍 Born-free South Africa · Formerly MindsDB

Portfolio GitHub X LinkedIn Dev.to


About me

I'm a born-free South African results-driven marketing professional, especially interested in roles that combine content strategy, social media management, and developer-focused marketing—with community engagement as a strong secondary focus. At MindsDB as Marketing and Community Coordinator, I worked closely with product, engineering, sales, and developer relations to create and distribute technical content, run cross-platform campaigns, and grow developer ecosystems—while moderating communities and supporting contributors across Slack, GitHub, and social channels. I'm skilled in content strategy, cross-platform publishing, digital communications, and community coordination, with a track record of strengthening brand visibility and audience engagement through tutorials, launch posts, newsletters, product pages, and live events. Passionate about technology, open source, content creation, and strategic communication—I bring a creative, proactive, and collaborative approach to every project. Following a company-wide restructuring at MindsDB, my role was impacted as part of broader organizational changes; I left on positive and professional terms.

🟢 Open to opportunities in content marketing, social media, developer marketing, technical writing, and community roles in AI/data.


Featured work

Technical writing & published articles

Cross-published on MindsDB.com, Medium, Dev.to, Hashnode, Hackernoon, DZone, and more.
📊 Full blog & content catalog (Google Sheets)

Title Link Notes
From Data To Dialogue: Unlocking AI Conversational Analytics in Web Apps with Supabase & MindsDB Read on MindsDB
How Web Apps Can Gain a Competitive Edge with Supabase and MindsDB Read on MindsDB
Building a Chrome Extension with Anton - From Prompt to Production Read on MindsDB Ghostwriter: Senior Front-End engineer built the Chrome extension; credited as author on my draft of this use-case post.
Introducing Anton: What Business Intelligence Is Supposed To Be Read on MindsDB Lead ghostwriter on this launch blog; Jorge Torres (CEO) is listed as author—I wrote the post; Jorge reviewed.
Turning Claude Code into a Conversational Data Analyst with the Minds Plugin Read on MindsDB
Move RevOps Analytics Closer to the Customer with MindsDB and Hubspot Read on MindsDB
MySQL & MindsDB Unlocks Intelligent Content Discovery For Web CMS with Knowledge Bases and Cursor Read on MindsDB
MariaDB & MindsDB Turns WooCommerce Data to Insights with Real-Time AI Analytics for eCommerce Teams Read on MindsDB
Streamline Financial Analysis with MindsDB’s Knowledge Bases and Hybrid Search Read on MindsDB
Unlocking Salesforce CRM Intelligence with MindsDB’s AI Powered Knowledge Bases Read on MindsDB
The Future of Data-Native & Grounded AI with MindsDB: Moving Data to Models No Longer Makes Sense Read on MindsDB
The Real Costs of ETL and How MindsDB Eliminates Them Read on MindsDB
Unlocking Operational Intelligence in Energy & Utilities with MindsDB Knowledge Bases & Hybrid Search Read on MindsDB
Drive Compliance & Customer Insights with MindsDB Knowledge Bases + Hybrid Search Read on MindsDB
Introducing MindsDB’s Integration with Gong: AI Analytics on Call Data Read on MindsDB
Introducing MindsDB’s Hybrid Search: Find What Matters in a Sea of Enterprise Data Read on MindsDB
Bringing AI Analytics to Financial Services with MindsDB Read on MindsDB
Building Trust in AI: Enterprise Knowledge Base Validation with MindsDB Read on MindsDB
Improving your business’ E-commerce Support with AI using MindsDB & MonkeyLearn Read on MindsDB
MindsDB Product Updates - February 2026 Read on MindsDB
MindsDB Product Updates - January 2026 Read on MindsDB
MindsDB Product Updates- December 2025 Read on MindsDB
MindsDB Product Updates - November 2025 Read on MindsDB
MindsDB Product Updates - October 2025 Read on MindsDB
MindsDB Release Notes - September 2025 Read on MindsDB
MindsDB Release Notes - August 2025 Read on MindsDB
MindsDB Release Notes - July 2025 Read on MindsDB
MindsDB Release Notes v25.6.4.0 Read on MindsDB
MindsDB Minor Release Notes v25.6.2.0 Read on MindsDB
MindsDB Minor Release Notes v25.5.4.2 Read on MindsDB
How to build your Developer Portfolio with MindsDB (2024) dev.to
AI-Powered Selection of Asset Management Companies using MindsDB and LlamaIndex dev.to
How Developers should take advantage of MindsDB's Integration with OpenAI Chat GPT-3 dev.to
Predicting Employee Productivity using Machine Learning with MindsDB dev.to
MindsDB: Predicting Supply Chain Demand with Machine Learning using SQL dev.to
MindsDB: Your introduction to creating machine learning predictive models dev.to
MindsDB: Creating machine learning predictive models using SQL dev.to
MindsDB Hacktoberfest 2022: Win a Cash Prize dev.to
Hacktoberfest 2022 with MindsDB dev.to

Ghostwriting: Building a Chrome Extension with Anton — our Senior Front-End engineer built the Chrome extension; I ghostwrote this use-case post and credited him as author. Introducing Anton — I was the lead ghostwriter on this launch blog; Jorge Torres (CEO) is listed as author—I wrote the post and Jorge reviewed it.


Webinars hosted — MindsDB In Practice

Monthly MindsDB In Practice series (Live Q&A): conceptualized and hosted with Product—later streamed live on YouTube, X, and LinkedIn (previously Zoom).
📺 MindsDB events archive · YouTube

MindsDB Ă— partners

Webinar Link
How to Unlock AI Search on Private Data Stores (MindsDB Ă— NVIDIA) Recording & materials
Building Multi-Agent AI Systems for Enterprise Data with Google’s A2A Protocol (MindsDB × Google) Recording & materials

With Andriy Burkov, Ph.D.

Webinar Link
Fast‑Track Knowledge Bases: How to Build Semantic AI Search (intro & Q&A trimmed in published edit; fuller sessions below) Event page · YouTube
How to Blend Hybrid Retrieval with Structured Data Recording & materials
Ask Your Data Anything — Enterprise AI Analytics with Minds Recording & materials
Unlocking Real-Time Data Access for In-house AI Recording & materials
AI Knowledge Bases at Scale: Discovering Key Analytics Insights in Massive Data Archives Recording & materials
Inside MindsDB Anton — Autonomous Business Intelligence Agent Recording & materials

Projects & repos

Project Description
COVID-19 South Africa Vue.js + Quasar dashboard · Live demo
MindsDB Tutorials Jupyter notebooks for MindsDB workflows
Lightwood Tutorial ML authoring tutorials for the MindsDB stack
MindsDB Examples Practical recipes for developers

👉 More on my Full MindsDB role overview

Open-source forks & curation (23 repos)

Forked upstream projects for tutorials, awesome-list updates, integration docs, and QA—not vanity forks.

Repository Purpose
mindsdb-examples Example recipes for onboarding & integration docs
mindsdb QA, release validation, contributor guidance
lightwood ML authoring tutorials & doc validation
awesome-postgres · awesome-mysql · awesome-duckdb · awesome-dynamodb · awesome-snowflake Integration-focused curation
awesome-huggingface · awesome-langchain ML/AI ecosystem references for blogs
langchain · transformers · ollama · weaviate Tutorial & integration references
openai-cookbook · anthropic-cookbook LLM integration writing
covid19za Data for the SA COVID-19 dashboard

Tools I use

Category Tools
AI-assisted creation Cursor, Claude Code
Community management Linear, Clearfeed, Slack, HubSpot, GitHub
CMS & scheduling Framer, HubSpot, Sprout Social
Design Figma, Canva
Publishing & social Hashnode, Medium, Dev.to, Hackernoon, Hacker News, DZone, X, LinkedIn, Facebook

Skills & highlights

Content marketing & distribution

  • Technical blogs: use cases, tutorials, integrations, and community education
  • Product Update and Launch blogs for releases and new features
  • Newsletter curation and consistent publishing pipeline
  • Co-authored technical content with Product, Engineering, and Sales
  • CMS publishing via Framer; social scheduling via HubSpot
  • Cross-published on Medium, Dev.to, Hashnode, Hackernoon, and DZone
  • Monitored comments and engagement across publishing platforms
  • Content audits, SEO, cross-linking, UTM tagging, and distribution best practices
  • Memes, social graphics, video snippets, and promotional assets
  • Product pages (e.g. HubSpot & Salesforce integrations)
  • Screen-recorded demos for MindsDB Anton, Query Engine, and Minds Enterprise (Cursor, iMovie, Adobe)
  • Organic social campaigns driving brand awareness without paid spend

KPI tracking & data analysis

  • Community metrics across Slack, GitHub, Stack Overflow, newsletters, and social
  • Content performance tracking on all distribution platforms
  • Monthly analytics reports for blogs, engagement, and social growth
  • Data-informed content strategy and community initiatives
  • Trend spotting for product visibility and audience growth

Hackathons, events & community

  • Hacktoberfest project lead: structure, rules, prizes, reviews, fulfillment, SWAG design
  • Hackathons with Quira (MindsDB Quests)
  • Monthly community webinars with Product; designed MindsDB In Practice
  • Partner sessions with NVIDIA, Google, and Andriy Burkov

Community & social communications (secondary focus)

  • Moderation on Slack, GitHub, GitHub Discussions, HubSpot Live Chat, Stack Overflow
  • Clearfeed workflows; proactive use-case discovery and Contributor programme support
  • GitHub issue triage; first-line social inboxes (X, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube)
  • Partner documentation listings; SWAG store (Covver); Enterprise chat support

QA & cross-functional collaboration

  • Pre/post-launch QA; bug triage in Linear
  • QA integrated into tutorial and documentation workflows
  • User feedback loops with Product and Engineering

Experience snapshot

Marketing & Community Coordinator — MindsDB (Remote) Content creation and social distribution at the center; community programs, webinars, Hacktoberfest, and QA as core supporting work.


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  2. covid-19-za covid-19-za Public

    South Africa Corona Virus Statistics Made With Vue.JS + Quasar Framework

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  3. mindsdb/minds-platform mindsdb/minds-platform Public

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  4. MindsDB-Lightwood-Tutorial MindsDB-Lightwood-Tutorial Public

    For all Lightwood tutorials I have created

  5. mindsdb-examples mindsdb-examples Public

    Forked from mindsdb/mindsdb-examples

    Examples for usage of Mindsdb https://www.mindsdb.com/

  6. mindsdb-tutorials mindsdb-tutorials Public

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