Seven systems, one recurring problem

A personalised smart-farming companion giving smallholder farmers the decision support that commercial agriculture takes for granted.

A commercial farmer in the Free State buys agronomy, satellite imagery and futures data. A smallholder in Mashonaland plants on the same guesswork their grandparents used, into a climate that no longer matches the calendar. Divisi closes that gap on the phone the farmer already owns.

• Hyper-local crop advice, planting calendars and 7-day weather calibrated to each farmer’s exact GPS-pinned plot using GAEZ agro-ecological data — not district-level averages. The same engine powers the free crop-suitability check on the web, which ranks crops against a marked field with no signup.
• Offline-first architecture: after a 60-second setup the core product works with no connectivity, syncing when signal returns. Shipped as Android and iOS apps — we started on a WhatsApp bot and pivoted off it, because the advice a farmer needs is a calendar and a plot, not a conversation. WhatsApp is now only a delivery channel, for one-time passwords and utility notifications.
• A farm diary and ledger that turns activity and produce sales into a financial record credible to buyers and lenders — the first step toward formal credit for farmers with no collateral.
• Farmer Hive: peer-to-peer answers from farmers growing the same crop in the same conditions, with expert verification. Alongside it, an open reference library — crop, pest and disease guides, a glossary of the words and measures farmers actually use and season and climate insights, all free and outside the app.
• Built for smallholder farmers across Sub-Saharan Africa, with 500+ farmers on the product since launch in November 2025. Free to farmers, and it stays that way — the outgrower and contract-farming programmes that need the agronomic outcomes pay for it, not the farmers and not advertisers.

• GeoDjango
• PostGIS
• Ionic Angular
• Capacitor
• GAEZ
• Offline-first

An on-demand logistics platform connecting anyone who needs to move something with the nearest available vehicle — built from zero with two co-founders I met at a startup lab in Egypt.

Third-party logistics in West Africa runs on phone calls, cash and trust. Pricing is improvised, drivers are unreachable when you need them and idle when you don’t. We built the operating layer that turned that into a marketplace.

• Met Williams Fatayo and Foluso Ojo at the World Youth Forum Startup Lab in Egypt and co-founded truQ with them; I built and ran the entire technical stack as CTO.
• Built the Django + PostGIS backend that matched shipments to the closest suitable vehicle, plus three Ionic Angular clients — business portal, driver app and consumer app — with RabbitMQ for async work and Paystack/Flutterwave payments.
• Shipped the BI dashboards operations ran the business on, and stood up the platform that carried the company from launch to 70+ drivers and 300+ completed trips within its first ten months.
• Recruited and mentored the first engineering cohort — four graduate trainees, now mid-to-senior engineers across African startups. I still mentor several of them.

• Winner — New Venture Competition, Wharton Africa Business Forum (2021)
• $50,000 — V8 Capital Partners Growth Lab (2020)

truQ has gone on to attract $470K+ in total backing, join the Techstars 2022 cohort, receive the Google Black Founders Fund, and win the TC Startup Battlefield at Moonshot 2023 — all of which the company reached after my tenure.

• Django
• PostGIS
• Ionic Angular
• RabbitMQ
• Paystack
• Flutterwave

Maintained TinCan, the messaging and booking-state system behind every customer touchpoint for a tour operator moving 200,000+ travellers a year across 100+ destinations.

When a traveller books a trip to Patagonia, everything between the click and the departure gate — confirmation, visa and passport requirements, pre-trip reminders, flight details, vouchers, post-trip evaluation — is a message that has to be right, personalised and on time. That was my system.

• Maintained TinCan as its responsible engineer: a two-microservice Python architecture — Django for the template builder, delivery and inbound mail-event webhooks; Flask for the booking state machine — with RabbitMQ as the messaging substrate on AWS.
• Sustained 10,000–30,000 emails a day across prospective, current and recent travellers, agents and white-label partners, composing downstream data sources into every send.
• Led the systems integration for the National Geographic Expeditions partnership, wiring 106 trips across 59 destinations — a commercial workflow extended through 2035 — into TinCan.
• Built self-serve template tooling that cut email turnaround for marketing and operations from days to minutes, and raised CI/CD, testing and monitoring standards on the platform team.
• Ran the post-mortem on a schema-migration rollback incident and turned it into a team-wide rule: every schema change ships with a tested rollback path and a partner-readiness check before sunset.

• Django
• Flask
• RabbitMQ
• AWS
• Docker
• CI/CD

Built the Android point-of-sale software and progressive web apps powering prepaid electricity, water and utility vending across a 600,000+ smart-meter footprint.

For a low-income South African household, prepaid vending is not a feature — it is the difference between having power tonight and not. I worked at that front line, from the meter protocol on the wall to the payment on the phone.

• Built and maintained the Android POS applications and PWAs running on retail-grade hardware, the vending front end for netVendor’s national base of 600,000+ meters.
• Integrated smart meters and IoT devices at the protocol level — MODBUS, DLMS, SIGFOX — and connected them through to gateway payments with OZOW and Paygate.
• Built and supported the prepaid electricity and water billing systems, and the PWAs households used to monitor their own consumption.
• Changed the engineering culture: ran internal developer talks on clean-code practice, coached seven colleagues onto Git as the team standard, and mentored six graduate trainees who are now mid-to-senior developers.

• Android
• PWA
• MODBUS
• DLMS
• SIGFOX
• OZOW
• Paygate

Architected the backend and cloud infrastructure that carried a financial-education platform through a critical growth phase — and conceived the product feature that became its engagement engine.

• Designed and implemented the core Django + PostgreSQL API architecture and the cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines and containerised services underneath the mobile and web products.
• Led ideation and end-to-end delivery of the FinMeUp Daily Quiz — a flagship engagement product that became central to the company’s daily-active-user metric.
• Integrated payment processors and insurance APIs that unlocked new revenue lines, and built the BI dashboards leadership used to read the business each morning.
• Ran external development contractors under Agile practice.

• Django
• PostgreSQL
• Ionic Angular
• RabbitMQ
• Docker

Ran backend engineering for an NFT marketplace through its highest-profile drops, including a Nelson Mandela archive piece and a fractionalised 1892 Krugerrand collection.

• Designed and managed the core backend services for the company’s NFT/Web3 marketplace, working directly to the CTO.
• Implemented the distributed queuing systems behind blockchain operations — minting, transfers and notifications — across Ethereum, Polygon and GNOSIS.
• Coordinated business, marketing and engineering to land landmark drops: the Nelson Mandela Warrant of Arrest NFT and the fractionalised 1892 Krugerrand collection.
• Planned feature rollout, and onboarded and trained new developers.

• Solidity
• Ethereum
• Polygon
• GNOSIS
• Distributed queues

Led technology innovation and built the mobile field-data tooling behind a USAID-funded public-health survey in Namibia.

Getting reliable data out of hard-to-reach populations is an engineering problem before it is a research problem. I built the tooling that made the fieldwork possible, then built the pipeline that turned raw GIS-tagged responses into evidence a ministry could act on.

• Built a GeoDjango backend with PostGIS storage and a hybrid Ionic Angular field app, deployed in a USAID-funded Namibian public-health survey mapping the distribution and health practices of sex workers.
• Built and ran the data cleaning and analysis pipelines that turned raw GIS-tagged field data into policy-grade insight for stakeholders.
• CodeFarm is the company I founded to build software for African smallholder agriculture; it now builds and operates Divisi.

• GeoDjango
• PostGIS
• Ionic Angular
• Field data collection