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Engineering

Building a tournament platform for 16 nations

What it takes to run KAFCON on software instead of spreadsheets: match centre, live scoring, and the referee and organizer consoles behind it.

In draft
AI

A Korean voice AI, and the latency budget behind it

The ASR → LLM → TTS pipeline behind Chingu, the per-stage latency budget we design against, and why on-device wake-word matters for privacy.

In draft
Fintech

WhatsApp as a fintech rail

Why Africa's informal merchants — proven first in South Africa — don't need an app, and how Imali does bookkeeping, OCR and tax prep inside a chat thread.

In draft

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