# Junaid Gool

> Senior software engineer in Cape Town, South Africa. I make AI-written software safe to run a business on: verified, monitored, and maintained. Generating code is cheap now; the work is trusting it with real money and real customers. Eight years building banking channel systems for teams serving 24 million customers across 880+ branches backs the claim. Client work is delivered through ElevateIQ (Pty) Ltd.

## Work (case studies)
- Tycho, a document verification system detecting forged payslips and bank statements with 7 independent detection layers and 4 verdicts, including an Unverifiable verdict so an unreadable document is never quietly cleared. In progress, pre-pilot: https://junaidgool.com/work/tycho
- Self-service terminals at national scale: https://junaidgool.com/work/sst
- Fraud alert system: https://junaidgool.com/work/fraud-alerts
- The War Room, a personal AI deliberation engine where 5 advisors on 5 different models debate a question through attributed rounds to a verdict that shows its work, in dependency-free .NET: https://junaidgool.com/work/war-room
- ProductLens, an agent loop over Postgres and pgvector that runs product research and fills a dossier: https://junaidgool.com/work/product-lens
- JujHub, an autonomous studio where a commander assembles specialist agents on a zero-dependency C# harness that edits its own code behind a human approval gate: https://junaidgool.com/work/jujhub
- SaaSKitHub, an eleven-game narrative arcade with a ten-chapter campaign, built solo end to end in about 36,000 lines of TypeScript, live and still evolving: https://junaidgool.com/work/saaskithub

## Writing
- Writing index: https://junaidgool.com/writing
- What I mean by harness engineering, on the code around the model call and why I build my own with no dependencies, in .NET: https://junaidgool.com/writing/harness-engineering
- Desktop engineering when the machine is in a branch, on building for self-service terminals you cannot reach and optimising for recoverability over user experience: https://junaidgool.com/writing/desktop-engineering
- Building a portfolio with production-grade discipline: https://junaidgool.com/writing/portfolio-build

## More
- About: https://junaidgool.com/about
- Contact (replies within one business day): https://junaidgool.com/contact
- Colophon, how the site is built and checked: https://junaidgool.com/colophon
- RSS feed for the writing: https://junaidgool.com/feed.xml