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Simphiwe Yende

@simphiweyende

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I build scalable verification platforms and cross-platform mobile products.

South Africa

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking to build scalable web and mobile products, own technical decisions, and contribute across frontend, backend, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD.

I'm building a large-scale verification and onboarding platform at The Good People Data Company, supporting KYC, KYB, credit checks, compliance verification, document signing, financial data capture, and configurable customer workflows.

I develop secure Vue.js frontends and Django REST APIs across customer, client, and admin portals, with multi-tenant workflows, authentication, background processing, AWS S3 storage, and third-party verification integrations. Previously, as Gaiosophy's sole founding engineer, I took a cross-platform mobile product from concept to production readiness, owning architecture, backend services, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, testing, and release preparation.

I've also built a bulk YouTube transcript scraping tool for an agency client and trained LLMs to code at Outlier.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Software Engineer

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The Good People Data Company

Feb 2025 - Present (1 year 6 months)

Working on a large-scale verification and onboarding platform supporting KYC, KYB, credit checks, compliance verification, employee screening, document signing, financial data capture, and configurable customer workflows. Responsible for developing and maintaining both the Vue.js frontend and Django backend, building secure, API-driven features across customer, client, and admin portals.