Living public record

What I am building and improving now.

This page presents the public-safe themes currently receiving active design, engineering, architecture or operational attention. Detailed private project controls remain outside the public portfolio.

Active focus areas

Work organised by the outcome being built.

Public evidence platform

Mandiso portfolio and publishing

Expanding this site into a structured professional knowledge layer with a digital CV, case studies, articles, public-awareness retrieval and contracted SEO pages.

  • 13-page Bordales Framework architecture
  • Ask Mandiso evidence retrieval
  • Content Studio and publishing workflow
Platform delivery

Multi-role business systems

Designing secure portals and operational workspaces where customers, administrators, reviewers and service teams interact through governed workflows.

  • Role and permission boundaries
  • Documents, states and approvals
  • Operational visibility and evidence
Legacy improvement

Enterprise platform modernisation

Stabilising long-running systems, improving user journeys, clarifying workflow logic and reducing operational risk without unnecessary rewrites.

  • Current-state analysis
  • Controlled refactoring
  • Production continuity
Commerce

Catalogue, quote and procurement experiences

Improving large product environments across search, product discovery, quote-building, account processes, supplier data and SEO architecture.

  • Large catalogue scale
  • Buying and quote journeys
  • Data synchronisation
Legal technology

Matter-centred operational architecture

Turning file, spreadsheet and diary-heavy legal operations into structured matter workflows with oversight, responsibility and document controls.

  • Technical specification complete
  • Diary and reminder architecture
  • POPIA-conscious access
Hosting and operations

Repeatable deployment infrastructure

Building safer ways to package, deploy, verify and operate public and client-facing applications across Linux, containers, DNS, SSL and recovery controls.

  • Immutable releases
  • Health and smoke tests
  • Rollback and release evidence
Communication channels

Messaging and connected customer journeys

Connecting business workflows to email, authenticated APIs and messaging channels with clear verification, security and operational handling.

  • Webhook patterns
  • Authenticated service integration
  • Message and transaction evidence
AI-enabled delivery

Controlled engineering acceleration

Using AI to increase research, analysis, documentation, review and testing capacity while keeping human approval and public/private boundaries explicit.

  • Governed task boundaries
  • Quality and evidence gates
  • Human release authority
Business growth

Findable digital systems

Connecting websites, structured content, SEO, lead journeys and operational platforms so digital presence leads into real business capability.

  • Page-contract architecture
  • Search-intent ownership
  • Evidence-led conversion paths
How current work becomes public

Publish the useful learning, protect the implementation.

Public updates focus on the problem, architecture principle, working method and outcome. Confidential names, infrastructure, source code, client data and protected internal mechanisms stay private.

  • Describe the business or technical problem clearly
  • Share transferable design and delivery lessons
  • Connect the update to relevant public evidence
  • Remove private identifiers and implementation details
  • Use human review before publication
  • Keep the living awareness graph in sync
Current operating themes

What connects the work.

Structureturn fragmented operations into workflows
Controlmake roles, approvals and risk explicit
Evidenceprove decisions, releases and outcomes
Growthbuild systems that can evolve safely
Follow the build

Read the thinking as the public evidence layer grows.

Insights provide detailed articles, case-study perspectives and build notes connected to the capability graph.