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- Shared stack: none in common
- Both kinds of work: Web
- Order: Joel Transport (Dec 2022 – May 2023) → CaseNotes (Feb 2026 – present)
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Joel Transport ›
Online booking platform on AWS
CaseNotes ›
South African legal research, e-discovery and learning, powered by AI
Ventaw ›
Secure, isolated environments for developer workloads
At a glance
- Role
- Lead Engineer
- When
- Dec 2022 – May 2023
- Length
- 6 mo
- Status
- Live
- Type
- Web, Platform
- Role
- Founder / Lead Engineer
- When
- Feb 2026 – present
- Length
- 9 mo so far
- Status
- Live
- Type
- AI, Web, Mobile
- Role
- Founder / Lead Engineer
- When
- In progress
- Length
- —
- Status
- In progress
- Type
- Platform, Web
The problem
Centralised the customer journey and operational data, reduced manual hand-offs and set up a documented AWS foundation.
South African legal information is scattered across portals with limited keyword search, while international e-discovery platforms are often priced beyond the local market.
Environment provisioning, session management and resource monitoring, designed for security, multi-tenancy and concurrent workloads.
What was built
Led architecture and hands-on engineering for an online booking platform: Python APIs and the AWS deployment architecture, integrated with Paystack, Sage Accounting, Zoho Bigin and Zoho SalesIQ.
An integrated research, e-discovery and learning platform: hybrid semantic search across more than 10,000 judgments, a precedent citation graph, structured document extraction, AI-assisted discovery and stateful research workflows.
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Stack
- Python
- AWS
- Paystack
- Sage
- Zoho
- Next.js
- FastAPI
- PostgreSQL
- pgvector
- Neo4j
- Redis/ARQ
- Azure OpenAI
- LangChain
- LangGraph
- Next.js
- FastAPI
- Docker
Highlights
- Python APIs and AWS deployment architecture
- Paystack, Sage Accounting, Zoho Bigin and Zoho SalesIQ integrations
- Five-stage Graph RAG pipeline in LangGraph
- Hybrid pgvector and Neo4j retrieval, and a TAR active-learning loop
- Human-in-the-loop tool-calling chat with PostgreSQL checkpoints
- MCP server for case search and drafting
- Next.js management interface
- FastAPI orchestration APIs
Infrastructure choices
- AWS
- pgvector + Neo4j
- Redis / ARQ workers
- LangGraph with PostgreSQL checkpoints
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Outcome
Centralised the customer journey and key operational data, reduced manual hand-offs and established a documented AWS foundation for future development.
An integrated research and review platform grounded in more than 10,000 judgments, with a structured learning bank of 1,624 rubric-scored questions. The architecture supports resumable jobs, traceable sources and human review.
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