Senior Backend & AI Engineer · Johannesburg

Backends and AI systems that hold up in production. Ask my AI twin anything. It answers by voice or text and moves the page as it talks.

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11+
Years shipping production software
200M+
Email addresses validated on Kafka
R5M+
Installer payments in six months
10,000+
Judgments searchable with RAG

Voice interviews

Interview me. Literally.

Call my AI twin and it answers like I would, grounded in my own CV, projects and answers. Ask about mobile work and the page changes while it speaks. Every call is recorded and scored for quality, so it gets better with every conversation.

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Tawanda Makunike

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I've put my mobile work on your screen. WDDNG has two apps on Google Play…

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