Masilive SifaneleSoftware engineer / South Africa
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INDEPENDENT ENGINEERING PORTFOLIOEARTH / SOUTH AFRICA
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Masilive Sifanele

ENGINEERING SYSTEMS

SOFTWARE ENGINEER / SYSTEMS THINKER

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Dependable software. Clear boundaries. From data to deployment.

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BEHIND THE BUILD

In my element.

A little room for big ideas.
Code, coffee, and the occasional victory lap.

MASILIVE / THE WORKSHOPAN ANIMATED STUDY
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Since 2018Commercial software delivery
5 selected systemsIndependent, approved work
3 clear layersEnforced assembly boundaries
Evidence firstNo invented performance metrics

SELECTED WORK

Different domains.
The same engineering care.

Not everything meaningful can be public.
These independent projects can.

Developer tooling02

Promptido

A prompt library across AI-enabled IDEs, with refinement tools, offline-first sync, and mobile chains for steering agents.

  • Agent steering
  • IDE integration
  • Offline-first sync
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promptido.com

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BOOPLOOM

A multilingual Android distribution experience with a 26-language entry point and clear release-delivery responsibilities.

  • 26 language choices
  • Android distribution
  • Localization
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Capability descriptions follow the owner’s approved project brief. Live links are not a substitute for backend audits or measured benchmarks.

QUIET GAMES / THREE SMALL WORLDS

A slower kind
of play.

Three native Android prototypes, each built around a different untimed loop. Explore how they work, what makes them gentle, and where each small first version stops.

LANDSCAPE / TILE PLACEMENT

Terra Tile

Turn hexes. Join the edges. Grow a little wilderness.

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LIVE EXPERIMENT / NEUROEVOLUTION

alpha-gen

An interactive NEAT evolution lab on TensorFlow.js — evolve perceptrons into deep networks on sample or uploaded datasets, entirely in the browser.

Open the lab

COMMERCIAL EXPERIENCE / TECHNICAL DEPTH

Years of delivery.
Depth that compounds.

Hands-on commercial experience across data, APIs, interfaces, and deployment. Years of work, not proficiency percentages.

Reported from a 2026 baseline; each figure increases once per calendar year (UTC). Skills overlap and are not added together.

Years of commercial experienceAS OF 2026
  • SQL8 years
  • .NET Core8 years
  • RESTful APIs8 years
  • React5 years
  • Docker5 years

THE EXPERIENCE BEHIND THE WORK

Comfortable with
the consequential details.

My public profile spans financial-market systems, legacy modernization, eLearning, and operational automation. Confidential enterprise code stays confidential.

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01 / CORRECTNESS

Protect the business rules.

Make invariants explicit. Test failure paths, not just happy paths.

02 / MODERNIZATION

Improve without losing what works.

Preserve behavior while introducing clearer boundaries and modern interfaces.

03 / DELIVERY

Own the path to a running system.

Connect implementation, testing, data, deployment, and operational feedback.

SOMETHING WORTH BUILDING?

Let’s make the
complex dependable.

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