Senior software engineer · Cape Town
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.
Flagship project
Forged payslips and bank statements are where credit fraud starts. Tycho reads a document into typed records, runs 7 independent checks over it, and returns one of 4 verdicts with every reason recorded. It never quietly clears a document it could not read.
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Banking and payments
Kiosk software and the channel orchestration behind it, where a failure means a customer standing at a dead screen far from a branch. Built around retries, timeouts, and degrading gracefully instead of stopping.
read the case study →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. A transactional outbox and an append-only audit trail keep the record straight.
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An AI deliberation engine where 5 advisors, each on a different model, argue a question through attributed rounds and converge on a verdict that shows its work. Dependency-free .NET, streamed live, with every model call logged.
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A product-sourcing research platform where an AI agent runs the investigation loop and catalogues it as it goes. A TypeScript monorepo on a durable PostgreSQL job queue, with an append-only fact ledger, grounded-fact verification, and semantic search.
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An autonomous studio where a commander assembles a crew of specialist agents to take a goal from intent to a shippable deliverable. A zero-dependency C# harness that can edit its own code, behind a human approval gate.
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An 11-game narrative arcade with a 10-chapter campaign, built solo end to end: the engine, the games, the writing, and the loop that brings people back. Live, and still evolving.
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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.
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