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In common
- Shared stack: Next.js
- Both kinds of work: Web
- Order: ParcelNow (2025 – 2026) → WDDNG (Jan 2026 – present)
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ParcelNow ›
On-demand parcel delivery with real-time tracking
Ventaw ›
Secure, isolated environments for developer workloads
WDDNG ›
South Africa's wedding marketplace, with two apps on Google Play
At a glance
- Role
- Technical lead, Smart Kitchen Co
- When
- 2025 – 2026
- Length
- 1 yr
- Status
- Delivered
- Type
- Web, Platform
- Role
- Founder / Lead Engineer
- When
- In progress
- Length
- —
- Status
- In progress
- Type
- Platform, Web
- Role
- Founder / Full-stack & Mobile Engineer
- When
- Jan 2026 – present
- Length
- 10 mo so far
- Status
- Live
- Type
- AI, Mobile, Web
The problem
Customer and operations dashboards with backend services for parcel lifecycles, tracking events and notifications, built for high-throughput transactional workflows.
Environment provisioning, session management and resource monitoring, designed for security, multi-tenancy and concurrent workloads.
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.
What was built
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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.
Stack
- Next.js
- FastAPI
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Docker
- Next.js
- FastAPI
- Docker
- Next.js
- Supabase
- PostgreSQL
- Kotlin
- Jetpack Compose
- LangGraph
- Zod
- Paystack
- Azure
- LangSmith
Highlights
- Next.js dashboards over FastAPI services
- Live delivery updates through logistics and messaging integrations
- Next.js management interface
- FastAPI orchestration APIs
- 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
Infrastructure choices
- Docker-based development and deployment standards
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- Supabase with PostgreSQL RLS
Outcome
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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.