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Inkly — Secure, High-Availability Messaging Architecture

Inkly is a production-grade, high-availability secure messaging architecture engineered to solve the fundamental conflict between Zero-Knowledge privacy and massive horizontal scalability. Developed by Ancel Ajanga, the system replaces centralized trust models with a decentralized 'Sacred Bond' cryptographic lifecycle while maintaining sub-100ms real-time delivery across distributed WebSocket clusters. The architecture is built on a resilient three-tier storage strategy (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Redis) designed to handle thousands of concurrent connections with fault-tolerant delivery guarantees and effortless recovery from high-latency network partitions.

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Fits by Aliv — Kenya-First E-Commerce with Payment-Safe Workflows

Fits by Aliv is a Kenya-first e-commerce marketplace (thrift/sustainable fashion) with payment-safe workflows, inventory self-healing, and hardened security. Backend is NestJS with PostgreSQL (Prisma); clients are Flutter (mobile, web, desktop). Identity is Firebase Auth; payments are M-Pesa via Safaricom Daraja API.

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EduManage — Multi-Tenant School Management SaaS

A comprehensive educational management system designed to streamline administrative tasks, student enrollment, and academic reporting.

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NestFi — Resilient Financial Coordination Platform

NestFi is a production-grade financial coordination platform engineered for absolute correctness under the volatility of distributed systems. Developed by Ancel Ajanga, the system addresses the critical failures inherent in mobile money integrations and asynchronous payment processing. By leveraging a hybrid storage strategy and a ledger-first philosophy, NestFi ensures that financial truth is mathematically verified, auditable, and resilient to external provider outages, delayed callbacks, and race conditions. It is a capstone in safe financial engineering for high-risk, low-trust environments.

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SignFlow - Real-Time Assistive Tech Simulation for Sign Language

SignFlow is a high-fidelity assistive technology platform architected for real-time sign language translation, exploring the architectural requirements for scaling accessibility platforms. The system features WebSocket-powered streaming, 3D avatar simulation with natural variation, and accessibility-first design with WCAG compliance, demonstrating production-grade architecture for specialized user bases.

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OpsFlow - Incident & Operations Management Platform

OpsFlow is a production-ready incident and operations management platform architected for engineering teams, combining incident response, workflow management, task coordination, and knowledge sharing into a single secure team-based system. The platform features dual-database architecture (PostgreSQL + MongoDB), real-time WebSocket updates, and team-based multi-tenancy with 50+ API endpoints.

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EduChain - Blockchain Certificate Management

EduChain is a resilient, decentralized certificate management system architected on Web3 principles, issuing verifiable academic certificates as ERC721 NFTs on the Ethereum blockchain. The platform enables educational institutions to issue tamper-proof, blockchain-verified certificates while providing students with permanent, verifiable proof of achievements through hybrid storage (MongoDB + IPFS + Blockchain).

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LedgerX — Secure, Multi-Tenant Financial Platform

LedgerX is a production-grade, multi-tenant financial platform designed to handle invoicing, payments, accounting (double-entry ledger), audit/compliance, fraud detection, and system diagnostics in a single, cohesive system.

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Rasoha Academy - School Website

A modern, responsive website for a private school in Narok, Kenya, providing comprehensive information about programs, events, and resources for students and parents.

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Attendance System - Educational Analytics & Management

A resilient attendance management system architected for educational institutions to automate attendance tracking, provide comprehensive analytics, and generate detailed reports. The system handles 500+ active users across multiple institutions with 95% accuracy improvement and 70% reduction in administrative overhead.

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E-Learning Platform - Scalable Learning Management System

A resilient, scalable learning management system architected to handle thousands of concurrent students and hundreds of courses. The platform enables educational institutions to deliver online education at scale with sub-2-second page loads, comprehensive course management, and real-time progress tracking.

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TaskForge - Real-time Collaborative Project Management

TaskForge is a resilient, scalable real-time collaborative project management platform designed for engineering teams. The system handles concurrent collaboration across distributed teams, managing project workflows, task coordination, and team communication with sub-second latency and conflict-free synchronization.

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