I build software for businesses and run the servers and networks it depends on.
ICT engineer in Lusaka, Zambia. Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science, CCNA-trained on physical Cisco equipment, and a licensed practitioner with ICTAZ.
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Four client systems and four labs, covering everything from training users to routing traffic.
Systems I've built as a freelance developer for businesses in Lusaka, using Next.js, FastAPI and PostgreSQL. Clients are described here rather than named.
When several tenants share one meter, everyone pays the same amount, even when some use far more power than others.
A multi-tenant platform that distributes power from a primary meter to secondary smart meters and reads them through their APIs, so each tenant pays for what they actually use. Super admins, admins and tenants each get their own access level.
The owner drove between shops every day to count cash note by note and match mobile money and card payments against each employee's sales.
One system where every shop records its takings by payment type, service and employee. The owner sees all shops from one place, and staff are rewarded based on the income they actually bring in.
I gathered the requirements from the owner and staff, trained employees at each shop, and supported them after launch, including fixing data-entry and record errors.
Every shop received the same stock, so some ran out of products while others sat on supplies they didn't use.
Together with another developer, a barcode-scanning inventory system with separate views for the owner and each shop's checkout. The owner can now see how each shop actually uses products and restock to match.
Evaluators scored small businesses individually on paper, then had to meet and explain whenever their scores differed widely.
A shared web app where each evaluator scores on their own device and every score is visible and easy to update, which made the process transparent. It went from requirements to production in just over a month.
Environments I build and run myself to practise the day-to-day work of systems and network administration. Code for my own projects is on GitLab.
A Windows Server 2022 domain controller running Active Directory, DNS and DHCP, with a help desk machine and a user machine joined to the domain. I set up departmental OUs and security groups, password and lockout policies, mapped drives by department, and a network printer pushed through Group Policy only to the users who need it.
Help desk work runs through Spiceworks tickets, PDQ Deploy and PDQ Inventory for software rollout and asset tracking, and remote support over RDP and Windows Remote Assistance. A FreePBX phone system adds internal extensions for the help desk, HR and system admin, with test calls between softphones.
fwconsole restart.A real-time dashboard showing server health, router traffic, DNS, VPN and Docker service status in one place, with alerts for critical failures. Sign-in goes through Keycloak single sign-on, including proper sign-out across services.
A home server and a public cloud VPS running my own DNS resolver and filtering, a WireGuard VPN for remote access, a Caddy reverse proxy with TLS, Keycloak for identity and Netdata for monitoring, all in Docker containers. The VPS hosts live web services, including this site.
A small multi-site enterprise network with Cisco routers and switches, OSPF routing between sites and VLANs separating departments, documented with a topology diagram and a full IP addressing plan. It builds on the CCNA labs I completed on physical Cisco routers and switches at the University of Zambia.
DMI-St. Eugene University, 2018 to 2023. CGPA 3.7.
Information and Communications Technology Association of Zambia.
Completed at the University of Zambia on physical Cisco equipment. Preparing for the certification exam.
Introduction to Cybersecurity and Introduction to Data Science, through Smart Zambia Institute.
I'm looking for a role in IT support, systems or network administration, or software development.