🏅 CHPC National Finalist 2025 & 2026 · 🖥️ Captain: Team 3NCRYP+3D · 🚀 Founder: saxsprojects
ICT graduate from the University of Mpumalanga (Diploma in ICT, 2023-2025, graduated May 2026), now studying the Advanced Diploma in ICT in Application Development (ADPICT). I build full-stack products and the infrastructure underneath them. My work spans high-performance computing, AI and computer-vision MVPs, and education and fintech apps aimed at real South African problems: university admissions, primary-school learning, local-market payments, road safety and service delivery. I run saxsprojects, my software studio, and I tutor and lead students on the side. I care about shipping things that actually work, with real tests and real deployments behind them.
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University Course & APS Guide Helps South African matriculants calculate their APS and match it against real admission rules and courses at institutions such as UP, Wits, NWU, NMU, UKZN, TUT and Stellenbosch, including multi-campus offerings and bursaries.
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QR Payments for Local Markets Fintech QR-payment platform for traders and shoppers in Mbombela/Nelspruit, built for the EDHE Hackathon 2026 Market Connectivity challenge.
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Gamified CAPS Learning App Educational game app for Grade 1-7 learners with Learner, Parent and Teacher roles, 140+ curriculum-aligned games, and AI features routed through Cloud Functions so no keys ship to the device.
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Cross-Device Operating System A long-term OS project with a shared Rust core, a GTK4 desktop shell on Linux, an Android launcher heading toward AOSP, and a Buildroot pipeline that produces a bootable x86_64 image tested in QEMU through CI.
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Ten full-stack MVPs, each with a FastAPI backend on Google Cloud Run and a React frontend on Vercel. Five use MobileNetV2 models I trained with transfer learning (fire/smoke detection reaches 94.8% validation accuracy).
SafeSpeed AI · PotholeWatch · FireWatch AI · PPE Guardian · SmartWaste AI
AgriVision · WaterGuard AI · EnergyWatch · QueueSense · FaceGate
Python OpenCV PyTorch FastAPI React Cloud Run
CHPC Student Cluster Competition · Team 3NCRYP+3D, University of Mpumalanga
- HPL tuning: pushed a 2-node OpenStack cluster to 1,025 GFLOPS (83.7% of theoretical peak) by moving from OpenBLAS to Intel MKL with AVX-512 and tuning problem size, block size and broadcast algorithm.
- Benchmarks: HPL, HPCC, HPCG and OpenMX builds with multi-node MPI runs.
- Platform engineering: Kubernetes with Cilium networking, Argo CD GitOps, Sealed Secrets, Cinder storage, WireGuard access and Wazuh security monitoring, managed through Terraform and reviewed pull requests.
- Research interest: GPU acceleration of SPUMA/OpenFOAM.
Web & Mobile: UCAG · Ukhona Pay · QuestKids · Tshinanne Transport · Grocery Tracker Pro
Systems & Infra: Protea OS · CHPC cluster work
AI / Computer Vision: SafeSpeed · PotholeWatch · FireWatch · AgriVision · and more
Frontend: React · Next.js · Vite · Flutter | Backend: FastAPI · Node.js · Firebase Cloud Functions
AI / CV: PyTorch · OpenCV · MobileNetV2 · Gemini API | Cloud: Google Cloud Run · Vercel · Firebase
HPC & DevOps: OpenMPI · Intel MKL · Kubernetes · Cilium · Argo CD · Terraform · GitHub Actions
| Qualification | Institution | Period |
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| Advanced Diploma in ICT: Application Development (ADPICT) | University of Mpumalanga | 2026 - present |
| Diploma in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) | University of Mpumalanga | 2023 - 2025 · graduated May 2026 |
| 🏅 National Finalist, CHPC Student Cluster Competition 2025 | Centre for High Performance Computing national round |
| 🏅 National Finalist, CHPC Student Cluster Competition 2026 | Centre for High Performance Computing national round |
| 🖥️ Team Captain, CHPC SCC 2026 | Leading Team 3NCRYP+3D (University of Mpumalanga) |
| 💡 EDHE Hackathon 2026 | Built Ukhona Pay for the Market Connectivity challenge |
| 🎓 Tutor & Student Leader | University of Mpumalanga |
