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- Shared stack: none in common
- Both kinds of work: Web
- Order: Joel Transport (Dec 2022 – May 2023) → OrderEase (2025 – 2026) → WDDNG (Jan 2026 – present)
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Joel Transport ›
Online booking platform on AWS
WDDNG ›
South Africa's wedding marketplace, with two apps on Google Play
OrderEase ›
Branded online ordering for restaurants and retailers
At a glance
- Role
- Lead Engineer
- When
- Dec 2022 – May 2023
- Length
- 6 mo
- Status
- Live
- Type
- Web, Platform
- Role
- Founder / Full-stack & Mobile Engineer
- When
- Jan 2026 – present
- Length
- 10 mo so far
- Status
- Live
- Type
- AI, Mobile, Web
- Role
- Technical lead, Smart Kitchen Co
- When
- 2025 – 2026
- Length
- 1 yr
- Status
- Live
- Type
- Web, Platform
The problem
Centralised the customer journey and operational data, reduced manual hand-offs and set up a documented AWS foundation.
South African couples plan across fragmented directories, WhatsApp messages and opaque “price on request” listings, while many international tools don't support local multi-ceremony wedding journeys.
Direct ordering and order management: menus, orders, payments and fulfilment, with automated order intake and status updates that cut merchants' operational overhead.
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.
A Next.js and Supabase marketplace with two Kotlin / Jetpack Compose Android apps on Google Play: one for couples, one for vendors. Thuli, the AI planner, is a LangGraph supervisor coordinating 16 specialist agents.
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Stack
- Python
- AWS
- Paystack
- Sage
- Zoho
- Next.js
- Supabase
- PostgreSQL
- Kotlin
- Jetpack Compose
- LangGraph
- Zod
- Paystack
- Azure
- LangSmith
- Next.js
- FastAPI
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
Highlights
- Python APIs and AWS deployment architecture
- Paystack, Sage Accounting, Zoho Bigin and Zoho SalesIQ integrations
- Two Kotlin / Jetpack Compose Android apps published on Google Play
- Thuli: a LangGraph supervisor coordinating 16 specialist agents through Zod-typed handoff tools
- Per-agent model selection, token metering and LangSmith tracing
- SSE streaming that renders vendor cards and progress during an answer
- Fast, responsive ordering on Next.js
- FastAPI services for menus, orders, payments and fulfilment
Infrastructure choices
- AWS
- Supabase with PostgreSQL RLS
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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.
The marketplace runs across web and two production Android apps, giving couples structured planning tools and vendors better-qualified enquiries with date, budget and guest-count context.
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