> SIMANGALISO_VILAKAZI
Building calm, reliable software and infrastructure
SYSTEM.ACTIVITY
LOGS/PRODUCTS
Automated payment reminders via email and WhatsApp. Built for anyone who's owed money and tired of asking twice. Chase rent, client payments, milestone payments, subscriptions, personal debts, and other balances from one system. Tone escalation from friendly to firm. Fully branded emails with customizable templates. Connects to 8,000+ apps via Zapier. Create chases automatically from Stripe, Google Sheets, HubSpot, Typeform, and more.
PathForge is a free mentorship and skills development platform helping South African women and youth gain real work experience through project-based learning, addressing the country's high unemployment challenge.
Watches your network traffic, learns what normal looks like, flags anomalies. Rule-based signatures catch known threats. Isolation Forest catches the rest. Runs locally, no cloud, no cost. Ships with a live dashboard.
Salary data aggregation. Transparent market insights.
Instant airtime-to-USDC. Non-custodial Stellar rails.
Professional work experience is available with an access code.
LOGS/SYSTEMS
Always-on intrusion detection node. Packet capture runs as a LaunchDaemon, while the analyzer and monitoring dashboard run in Docker. The ML model is retrained periodically on live baseline traffic.
Self-hosted LLM serving infrastructure powering AI features across multiple products, including the terminal on this portfolio. Handles model routing, SSE streaming, and tone-adaptive message generation for PayChasers. Powers autonomous marketing content generation via n8n workflow automation. Exposed through Cloudflare Tunnel with reverse proxy routing.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Credited contributor to the radCAD open-source simulation framework.
Contribution:
- - cadCAD compatibility mode
- - CI pipeline improvements
COMMUNITY
Cape Software Community Blog
Built the Cape Software Community website from the ground up as a commissioned bounty project and continue to maintain and evolve it.