Work · 08 projects
Systems, tooling and shipping work.
A running set of case studies across infrastructure, developer tooling, and product systems. Each one starts with a real constraint, then shows how I turned it into something usable.
- 01InzwiFeaturedSpeech AI for Zimbabwean LanguagesSpeech recognition and synthesis for Shona and Ndebele, built in Zimbabwe on a consented, dialect-tagged corpus recorded by Zimbabwean speakers. Data Champion at the POTRAZ AI4I Challenge 2026.TypeScriptNext.jsNode.jsPostgreSQLPyTorchAzure
- 02LightrFeaturedSelf-Hosted Mail EngineA self-hosted mail engine in Python: SMTP in and out, SPF/DKIM/DMARC, a retrying outbound queue, and a REST API and CLI, with Dovecot serving the mailboxes. It runs the mail for this site.PythonDovecotSQLitePostgreSQLLinux
- 03SimpliCDSimple Deployment AutomationContinuous deployment for VPS and bare-metal servers. Point it at a repository and it builds, starts, health-checks, and rolls back a release that doesn't come up healthy. No Docker, Kubernetes, or agents.PythonLinuxGitYAML
- 04zwdomainFeaturedZimbabwe Domain Intelligence ToolkitCLI and npm library for .co.zw domain intelligence, DNS diagnostics, and email configuration checks. Useful for registry lookup workflows, provider detection, and troubleshooting domain setups.Node.jsJavaScriptnpm
- 05expo-yt-dlpyt-dlp Inside React Native AppsAn Expo module that runs the real yt-dlp on an Android phone: a bundled, stripped-down Python runtime behind a typed JS API for info, formats, downloads, subtitles and playlists. No server.TypeScriptKotlinPythonExpoAndroid
- 06DroidwrightPlaywright-Style WebView Automation for AndroidA native Expo module that drives offscreen Android WebViews with a Playwright-like TypeScript API: navigation, locators, fills, taps, waits, screenshots, cookies and storage, inside the app itself. No desktop Chrome, ADB or Appium.TypeScriptKotlinExpoAndroid
- 07SavannahDBEmbedded and Server Document DatabaseA lightweight document database with a C++ storage and indexing core, usable in-process from Node.js like SQLite, or as a standalone JSON-over-HTTP server any language can call.C++TypeScriptNode.jsCMake
- 08Metafy-SEOLean React SEO ToolkitSSR-safe React SEO library for managing metadata across Next.js, Vite, and other React setups. Built for teams that want framework-agnostic SEO primitives without heavy dependencies.TypeScriptReactnpmRollup