Senior software engineer · Cape Town
Junaid Gool.
Anyone can generate software now. I make the kind you can trust with real money and real customers: verified, monitored, and there when it breaks.
Selected work
what I am building now, the banking systems, and the projects I ship alone
Banking and payments
Self-service terminals at national scale
Kiosk software and the channel orchestration behind it. A failure here means a customer at a dead screen far from help, so the system is built on retries, timeouts, and graceful degradation.
read the case study →Fraud alert system
Real-time fraud detection on the payment path. An event-driven .NET system scores each transaction against configurable rules and returns approve, soft-block, or hard-block before the money moves. An append-only audit trail records every decision.
read the case study →Personal projects
The War Room
An AI deliberation engine. 5 advisors, each on a different model, debate a question in attributed rounds and return a verdict that shows its work. Dependency-free .NET, streamed live, every model call logged.
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ProductLens
A research platform where an AI agent runs the product investigation and catalogues every finding as it goes. A TypeScript monorepo on a durable PostgreSQL job queue, with an append-only fact ledger and semantic search.
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JujHub
An autonomous studio: a commander assembles specialist agents to take a goal to a finished deliverable. A zero-dependency C# harness that can edit its own code, behind a human approval gate.
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SaaSKitHub
An 11-game narrative arcade with a 10-chapter campaign, built solo end to end: the engine, the games, the writing, and the campaign progression. Live, and still evolving.
read the case study →Let's build something.
Got a role, a project, or a hard problem? The fastest way to reach me is email, and I read everything that comes in.
junaidgool@outlook.comHave a hard reliability problem, or automation you need to trust with real money? That is the work I take on through ElevateIQ (Pty) Ltd.
Latest: wrote “What I mean by harness engineering” · Jul 2026