About me

I’m Phumudzo — a full-stack software engineer based in Cape Town, South Africa. I’ve been building things professionally for 7+ years, and for slightly longer if you count the projects nobody should ever see.

I write TypeScript for a living, occasionally Rust when I feel like suffering productively, and C# back when I was making racing simulators feel real. My work spans web, mobile, desktop, and the terminal — basically anywhere users can click, scroll, or rage-quit.

What I do

I currently work at KingMakers as a Senior Frontend Software Engineer, building the frontend for gaming platforms across Africa — BetKing, SuperSportBet SA & Zambia, and others. Responsible for everything users see, tap, and occasionally argue with.

Before that, I spent four years at SoImagine Systems as a Senior Software Engineer, shipping 25+ production systems for government, enterprise, and SaaS clients — from workforce management platforms to anti-corruption software to pathology backends for the Gauteng Department of Health. The kind of projects where “it’s broken in prod” is not a fun sentence.

Before the web, I was at The VRoom, writing motion software for gaming simulators and integrating hardware to make virtual racing feel physical. I also occasionally strapped in to “test” it.

Things I’ve built

On the side, I build tools and products I actually want to exist:

• RayAI — AI-powered idea validation and product development platform. For people with too many startup ideas and not enough data.
• Maneja — Social media management and scheduling SaaS. 140+ creators use it to not post at 3am manually.
• Bettervex — Production-ready SaaS starter built on Convex, Next.js, and BetterAuth. Monorepo, realtime, auth, subscriptions — the whole thing. 22 stars and counting.
• Cyte — CLI that crawls websites and converts them into Markdown. Built for AI agents, but humans can use it too.
• typed-fetch — Fetch wrapper that watches your actual API responses in development and generates TypeScript types. No schemas. No lying to yourself.
• Vawlt — Terminal vault for todos, ideas, and issues. Per-project SQLite journals, full-text search, recurring tasks. Published on npm.
• Lory — Cross-platform desktop wellbeing companion built with Tauri and React. It reminds you to take breaks. You will ignore it.
• ShotX — Turns X/Twitter posts into clean screenshots. No API keys, no sign-up, no excuses.

Tech I reach for

Frontend: React, Next.js, Remix, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS
Mobile: React Native, Expo, Flutter
Backend: Node.js, Deno, Bun, PostgreSQL, Prisma
Desktop: Tauri, Rust
Cloud: AWS, Azure, Cloudflare, GCP, Firebase, Supabase

A bit more

I’m from Limpopo, grew up speaking TshiVenda, SeTswana, and English. Started at UNISA studying Computer Sciences, left early, shipped anyway.

I care about developer experience, fast interfaces, and tools that don’t get in the way. If something feels unnecessarily hard to build or use, I’ll probably try to fix it.

You can find my code on GitHub, my career history on LinkedIn, or just poke around this site.