💻 Software Engineer • 💼 Tech Entrepreneur • 🖥️ Linux Admin
📊 ML/AI Practitioner • 🎓 Post-grad Researcher in Computer Vision and Time Series Forecasting
I design, build, and operate software systems that power digital transformation for governments, businesses, and communities—championing open-source, machine learning, and rock-solid performance.
| Domain | Key Tools & Frameworks |
|---|---|
| Frontend | React • Next.js (App Router) • Astro • Tailwind CSS • Flutter |
| Backend / APIs | Django • DRF • FastAPI • Spring Boot • NestJS • Strapi |
| DevOps & Linux | Ubuntu Server Administration • Docker • Nginx • Coolify • CapRover • Cloudflare Workers • AWS Lambda |
| Data & Search | PostgreSQL • Redis • MinIO • MeiliSearch • Elasticsearch / OpenSearch |
| Machine Learning | Python • TensorFlow • PyTorch • scikit-learn • NumPy • pandas |
| Visualisation | Matplotlib • Seaborn • Plotly • Kibana / OpenSearch Dashboards |
| Web & CMS | WordPress • Headless CMS (Strapi) • Custom themes & plugins |
| Docs & Publishing | LaTeX • Markdown |
| No-Code / Low-Code | Zapier • Make.com • n8n (self-hosted) |
| Design & Motion | Photoshop • Illustrator • Affinity Photo • Affinity Designer • Canva • After Effects • Figma |
| Creative Coding | Processing • p5.js • openFrameworks |
| Security & Networking | WireGuard VPN • SSL/TLS best practices |
Under NDAs, I’m building Government-to-People (G2P) systems that:
- Consolidate citizen data into single-source-of-truth registries
- Automate eligibility & benefits workflows for transparent payouts
- Apply ML (fraud/anomaly detection, smart deduplication) for oversight
- Run securely on self-hosted Ubuntu to satisfy data-sovereignty mandates
Open-source stacks · strict compliance · human-centric design.
- Invoice & Receipting Web App – Analytics-first; ML predicts payment-delay risk.
- Donation Platform (Zambian market) – “Buy-Me-a-Coffee” style with seamless mobile-money.
- Bulk SMS API – Cloudflare Workers-powered for high-throughput, low-latency messaging.
- E-commerce Solutions – Inventory-aware e-commerce mobile apps and systems tailored for African MSMEs.
| Area | Highlights |
|---|---|
| Scientific Research | Publication-ready plots (Matplotlib, Seaborn) for ROC curves, confusion matrices, statistical charts. |
| Business Intelligence | Interactive dashboards (Plotly, Kibana) surfacing KPIs for finance, sales, and beneficiary-payment lifecycles. |
| System Metrics | OpenSearch + Kibana for log aggregation and real-time observability (response-time heatmaps, error-rate alerts, capacity forecasts). |
| Tool | Real-World Automations I’ve Shipped |
|---|---|
| Zapier | Social-media cross-posting, lead-capture → CRM, automatic follow-ups based on form feedback, calendar reminders triggered by website events. |
| Make.com | Multi-step marketing pipelines: RSS → design templates → scheduled posts; automated outreach emails when new leads appear in Google Sheets or Airtable. |
| n8n (self-hosted) | Privacy-friendly workflows: collecting website/social-media feedback → sentiment analysis → Slack alerts; syncing calendars across teams; nightly data enrichment jobs without SaaS limits. |
- Graphic Design – Brand assets, infographics, and marketing collateral in Photoshop, Illustrator, Affinity Photo/Designer, and Canva.
- Motion Graphics – After Effects animations for explainer videos, social ads, and UI micro-interactions.
- UX/UI – Wireframes to hi-fidelity prototypes in Figma, always performance-tested to hit my 400 / 400 Lighthouse obsession.
Processing, p5.js, and openFrameworks experiments exploring:
- Real-time music visualizations synced to MIDI/FFT data
- Recursive & fractal art driven by algorithmic randomness
- Interactive installations blending computer-vision inputs with generative graphics
- Computer Vision – Post-grad research on image classification and object detection (CNNs, RNNs, LSTMs, etc).
- End-to-End Pipelines – Data → pandas/NumPy → TF/PyTorch → FastAPI/DRF model APIs.
- Applied ML – Document verification, QA defect spotting, city-scale traffic analytics.
- Academic Publishing – Crafting research papers and technical docs in LaTeX for reproducibility and crisp typography.
From bespoke React apps to WordPress portals, I relentlessly chase a perfect 400 / 400 Lighthouse score (Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices, SEO) with lazy-loaded assets, SSR, aggressive caching, and UX polish that feels instant even on low-bandwidth links.
Contributor of fixes, docs, and starter templates—especially in Django, ODK, and DevOps—and sharer of scripts that help others self-host and hit those Lighthouse hundreds.
Eight-plus years of full-stack delivery (plus countless midnight SSH sessions) powering custom systems, ML integrations, and ultra-fast websites.
Need something secure, scalable, and blazingly fast? Let’s talk.
Go Development • Vision-language models • Serverless ML inference • Open-source analytics (PostHog, Superset) • DDD micro-services • Real-time generative art.
- Email | [email protected]
- LinkedIn | linkedin.com/in/alinani-sichone
- Twitter/X | @Ali_Sichone
“Do you see a man who excels in his work? He will stand before kings; He will not stand before unknown men.”
— Proverbs 22:29