cycy
the part nobody screenshots

Reliability happens in the dark.

Backend Engineer · DevOps · Technical Delivery Lead

The UI gets the applause. The backend gets the blame when something breaks. The obsession here? Making sure it doesn't — secure auth, clean migrations, event-driven systems, and infrastructure that scales without waking anyone up at 3AM. Backend by choice. DevOps by design.

See the work ~~> Tell me what's on fire →
Cynthia Wahome

Backend | DevOps · Open Source ↗

Life would be easier if I had the source code.
...still looking for that repository btw

projects

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Some shipped. Some still cooking.

Parcel Management System Hero
Parcel What We Offer
Parcel How It Works
Parcel Sending Made Easy
Parcel Rider Terms
Parcel Earn More As Rider
Parcel Transform Delivery CTA
  • Next.js
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Django
  • Tailwind

Parcel Management System

Real-time parcel logistics engine: state-machine routing, rider dispatch, and signature-verified webhook notifications.

📱 App Store 📱 Google Play 👥 Team Project
Field Worker View Manager View
Field Worker View (full)
Manager View (full)
  • React
  • Node.js
  • PostgreSQL
  • Express

Field Operations Management System

Offline-first field operations platform: GPS-stamped photo capture, fraud detection heuristics, and tamper-evident audit logs for remote teams.

📱 Play Store App
Staff Mobile App Feature
Student Mobile App Feature
Staff Dashboard Screen Staff Students Directory Screen
Staff Student Profile Screen Staff Result Entry Screen
Student Dashboard Screen Student Academic Biodata
Student Term Results Card Student Account Security
School Admin Web Dashboard
School Staff Web Dashboard
School Student Web Dashboard
  • Next.js
  • Laravel
  • React Native
  • Android (Play Store)

School Management System

Multi-tenant school ERP: web admin portals plus live Google Play apps for teacher grading, student report cards, and parent fee tracking.

⭐ Open Source 📱 Student App 📱 Staff App

tooling

// communication & community
🎭
  • Python
  • Slack SDK
  • python-dotenv

Slack Channel Migrator

⚡ Moving 200+ users between channels manually took 2+ hours

→ Bulk-migrates with exclusion lists & emoji announcements in 30 seconds

🐕
  • TypeScript
  • Slack Bolt
  • Docker
  • Fly.io

Watchdog Bot

⚡ Critical Slack messages silently deleted during rollover windows

→ Monitors deletions, posts visible alerts naming the culprit

🎁
  • Python
  • Flask
  • SQLAlchemy
  • PostgreSQL

Telegram Memberperks Bot

⚡ Manual management of exclusive community reward codes

→ Generates unique codes via Telegram, verifies membership

// growth & data
🦅
  • Python
  • Telegram API
  • RSS
  • Loguru

Twitter/X Monitor Bot

⚡ Missing high-value tweet reply windows without burning API quota

→ Monitors 50+ accounts via RSS, fires Telegram alerts

📊
  • Python
  • Telethon
  • gspread
  • Pandas

Telegram Data Pipeline

⚡ Chaotic group chats with no structured Q&A data for analysis

→ Scrapes multiple groups, exports to Google Sheets

🏗️
  • Python
  • TypeScript
  • FastAPI
  • Express

Polyglot Microservices Demo

⚡ Cross-language service communication with proper fault tolerance

→ FastAPI/Flask + Express with service discovery

// personal productivity
🧹
  • Python
  • IMAP
  • uv

Gmail Inbox Zero

⚡ Promotional emails burying important messages in Gmail

→ Detects promos via patterns, bulk deletes with dry-run mode

🛒
  • TypeScript
  • Puppeteer
  • Stealth Plugin

Checkout Automation

⚡ Tedious manual checkout flows on e-commerce platforms

→ Stealth browser product selection and automated billing

🔍
  • Bash
  • Git

Ghost Commit Catcher

⚡ Commits pushed after a PR merged never made it to dev — silently

→ Audits any repo list, flags orphaned commits before they're lost

🪱
  • Bash
  • PowerShell

GlassWorm Extension Scanner

⚡ GlassWorm supply-chain attack hiding invisible Unicode payloads in VS Code extensions

→ Scans macOS, Linux & Windows for C2 patterns and credential-theft indicators

🧛
  • Bash

macOS Dev Health & Cleanup

⚡ Stale node_modules, old venvs, and AI logs quietly eating disk space

→ Automated cleanup, plus a "Vampire Audit" for high-CPU processes

🔒
  • Python

Branch Protection Automator

⚡ Setting branch protection manually, repo by repo, across an org

→ Applies branch protection rules org-wide in one run

🎙️
  • Python
  • Whisper

Offline Whisper Transcriber

⚡ Paid transcription APIs for audio that could stay fully local

→ Offline macOS transcription, no API key needed

🧩
  • JavaScript
  • Slack API

Slack Emoji Bulk Toolkit

⚡ Uploading or purging hundreds of workspace emoji one by one

→ Bulk-uploads and mass-deletes emoji via the Slack Admin API

All Projects

Parcel Management System Hero
Parcel What We Offer
Parcel How It Works
Parcel Sending Made Easy
Parcel Rider Terms
Parcel Earn More As Rider
Parcel Transform Delivery CTA
  • Next.js
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Django
  • Tailwind

Parcel Management System

Real-time parcel logistics engine: state-machine routing, rider dispatch, and signature-verified webhook notifications.

📱 App Store 📱 Google Play 👥 Team Project
Field Worker View Manager View
Field Worker View (full)
Manager View (full)
  • React
  • Node.js
  • PostgreSQL
  • Express

Field Operations Management System

Offline-first field operations platform: GPS-stamped photo capture, fraud detection heuristics, and tamper-evident audit logs for remote teams.

📱 Play Store App
Staff Mobile App Feature
Student Mobile App Feature
Staff Dashboard Screen Staff Students Directory Screen
Staff Student Profile Screen Staff Result Entry Screen
Student Dashboard Screen Student Academic Biodata
Student Term Results Card Student Account Security
School Admin Web Dashboard
School Staff Web Dashboard
School Student Web Dashboard
  • Next.js
  • Laravel
  • React Native
  • Android (Play Store)

School Management System

Multi-tenant school ERP: web admin portals plus live Google Play apps for teacher grading, student report cards, and parent fee tracking.

⭐ Open Source 📱 Student App 📱 Staff App
Cybersecurity LMS full environment
  • Go
  • Docker
  • WebSockets
  • GitHub Actions
  • SQLite

Cybersecurity Learning Management System

Disposable browser-based Linux labs — a Go + Docker SDK engine that spawns isolated practice containers, streams shells over WebSockets, and self-healed when production cleanup pruned its image cache.

MenuCard Hero
Menuswift QR menu landing
MenuCard Admin Home
MenuCard Admin Menu
MenuCard Admin Orders Table
MenuCard Admin Orders
MenuCard Customer View MenuCard Customer View
MenuCard Customer View MenuCard Customer View
MenuCard Customer View MenuCard Customer View
MenuCard Customer View
  • React
  • Microservices
  • Node.js
  • Python

Microservice Menu Service

QR-driven restaurant ordering engine: polyglot microservices with cached read replicas and live table carts.

👥 Team Project
Construction Site Verification System Hero
Cyclone Field Worker Screens
Cyclone Admin Task Management
Cyclone Admin Manage Workforce
Cyclone How It Works
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Go
  • PostgreSQL
  • Cloudinary

Construction Site Verification System

Offline construction verification engine: GPS-tagged task proof, instant supervisor verification, and automated audit state machines.

TechiesMatch Hero
TechiesMatch Positioning
TechiesMatch How It Works
TechiesMatch Community
TechiesMatch CTA
  • React
  • Node.js
  • Socket.io
  • MongoDB

Professional Matchmaking System

Real-time matchmaking platform connecting tech professionals for collaboration and networking.

👥 Team Project
Civic Discourse Platform
  • React
  • GraphQL
  • MongoDB

Civic Engagement Management System

Open-source public square for civil dialogue — post quotes, vote, and deliberate.

⭐ Open Source
Horsin' Around Hero
Horsin' Around Meet the Cast
Horsin' Around How It Works
  • TypeScript
  • Slack Bolt
  • Docker

Horsin' Around Slack Bot

A comedy channel bot for Slack, styled as a tribute to Horsin' Around — the fictional sitcom-within-a-show from BoJack Horseman.

Editorial Publishing System
  • Next.js
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Tailwind

Editorial Publishing System

Zero-trust GitOps publishing engine: a browser studio for editors and a CLI for engineers, both converging on a JWT-signed GitHub PR and review gate before a zero-downtime Dokploy deploy. CMS ease without the database, the attack surface, or the developer bottleneck.

Niyara Wedding Planner
  • React
  • Node.js
  • PostgreSQL
  • Express

Wedding Planning Management System

Full-stack wedding planning dashboard — guest manager, action plan, vendor management.

Water Refill Pro
  • React
  • Node.js
  • PostgreSQL
  • Express

Water Refill Management System

Business management for water refilling stations — daily sales, inventory and revenue dashboards.

Cyclone Mining Hero
Cyclone Mining Fleet Operations
Cyclone Mining Rig & Capabilities
  • Static Architecture
  • Performance
  • Vercel Edge
  • Responsive UI

Mining Operations Website

Commercial corporate website for mineral exploration and extraction services — headless static architecture and edge CDN delivery.

Commercial Build
Cycy Hero
Cycy Group Ready
Cycy Roadmap Building
Cycy Gate Check
Cycy Certificate
Cycy Features
  • Next.js
  • Tailwind
  • Supabase
  • OpenAI

Study Group Management System

AI-powered study group platform — automated roadmaps, milestone gate checks, and certificates.

Africa Tech Festival
  • HTML
  • Bootstrap 4
  • SCSS
  • jQuery

Event Management System

Event site for Africa's premier tech conference — countdown, speakers, schedule, ticket pricing.

AgriSave Frontend
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Django
  • Chart.js
  • Tailwind

AI Crop Disease Detection

AI climate resilience dashboard — disease detection, crop monitoring, sustainability rewards.

⭐ Open Source
Restaurant Management System
  • React
  • Node.js
  • PostgreSQL
  • Express

Restaurant Management System

Full-featured restaurant site with attendant dashboard, reservations, and order management.

E-Waste Recycling Solutions
  • React
  • Node.js
  • MongoDB
  • Express

E-Waste Management System

Schedule e-waste pickups and track collection in real-time — user and collector roles.

delivery oversight

Led it. Shipped it. Slept eventually.

FitCall Hero
FitCall Coaching Features
FitCall Trainer Discovery
FitCall Session Booking
FitCall How It Works
FitCall Testimonials
FitCall Success Story
FitCall CTA Footer
  • Go
  • Next.js
  • React Native
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • iOS & Android

FitCall

Personal trainer booking platform: calendar scheduling linking clients to trainers, Go backend, and iOS/Android in-app purchase validation.

📱 Google Play 📱 App Store Most Active Mentor Most Supportive Mentor
LevelUp Hackathon Poster
  • PM
  • Design
  • Frontend
  • Backend
  • DevOps
  • Data
  • QA

LevelUp Hackathon

Four weeks, six engineering tracks, one technical programme — Product to DevOps, designed and run start to finish.

Technical Review Programme Design MVP Scope
LegalWatchdog Hero
LegalWatchdog How It Works
LegalWatchdog Features
LegalWatchdog Coverage
LegalWatchdog CTA
LegalWatchdog Projects
  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • Vue
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • Celery
  • MinIO
  • OpenAI API

LegalWatchdog

Regulatory changes across 200+ countries, tracked in real time — an AI-powered legal-monitoring platform shipped by another cross-functional team.

Engineering Direction Most Active Mentor

tooling

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Automate once. Suffer never.

🎭
  • Python
  • Slack SDK

Slack Channel Migrator

⚡ Bulk-migrates with exclusion lists & emoji announcements in 30 seconds

🦅
  • Python
  • feedparser
  • Groq

Twitter/X Monitor Bot

⚡ Monitors 50+ accounts via RSS, fires Telegram alerts

🔍
  • Bash
  • Git

Ghost Commit Catcher

⚡ Audits any repo list, flags orphaned commits before they're lost

field notes

All 51 articles ~~>

Articles written after the fire.

Smug emoji making an OK sign
  • #githubactions
  • #security
  • #cicd

One Stolen Token Should Not Ship Your App

One stolen admin token reached every repo. So I built a release that needs two people, and found four bugs only by running it.

Read on DEV ↗
start here
Stick figure crawling on the floor in tears
  • #tdd
  • #playwright
  • #prisma

I Wrote Two Tests.
The App Lied.

I was assigned two tests. Going test-first found a missing field, a misleading error and tests that never ran.

Read on DEV ↗
Smirking emoji pointing with both hands
  • #security
  • #architecture
  • #webdev

Usipoziba Ufa ...
Utajenga Ukuta

A Swahili proverb: seal the crack or rebuild the wall. Backend first principles from cleaning up a production codebase.

Read on DEV ↗

Also worth a read:

skills

Not just listed. Actually used.

⚙️ Languages & Backend

Languages

Python
Go
TypeScript
🦀Rust
JavaScript
PHP
Bash

Frameworks

Django
FastAPI
Flask
Node.js
Express
Next.js
React
⚓Anchor
React Native

Databases

PostgreSQL
MongoDB
MySQL
Redis

APIs

gRPC
🔌REST
GraphQL
⚡WebSockets
🚢 Cloud & Infra

Cloud

AWS
Azure
GCP
DigitalOcean

IaC & Containers

Docker
Terraform
Kubernetes

Systems

Linux
Nginx
PM2
⚙️systemd

Object Storage & CDN

🪣AWS S3
Cloudflare
🗄️R2
📦MinIO
⚡ CI/CD & Observability

Tools

Actions
CircleCI
🪵🐦Woodpecker CI
Jenkins
Ansible
Postman

Version Control

Git
GitHub
GitLab
Bitbucket
Codeberg
Gitea

Monitoring

Prometheus
Grafana
Datadog
🤖UptimeRobot

Quality

Sentry
ESLint
✨Prettier
SonarQube
🧭 Delivery Ownership
  • 🔗 Cross-Functional Coordination
  • 🎓 Technical Mentorship
  • 🧪 Cross-Track QA
  • 📌 Delivery Accountability
  • 🎉 Culture & Morale
  • 🚫 Zero Tolerance for Blame-Shifting
  • 🔍 Fact-Checks Excuses in Real Time

clients

Agrattons Edge Sisimsha Niyara Weddings Xpro Bivy Space Gig Dynamics Primestix Mavuno Metabel Zara Skyelines Aerospace Stovix Charity Water Pro Cyfamod Technologies IronRim Zania Quote/Vote Talis Transcontinental FieldProof FitCall Cyfamod SMS Suivi Rider LegalWatchdog LDB Africa

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Aligned, justified, certified.

contacts

Bring a problem.

cycy — Observe. Stabilize. Deliver. Software Engineering Lead, Backend & DevOps Core

If you'd rather prevent fires than fight them at 3am, we'll get along.

Let's build systems that make production boring.

or find me here

hey@wamzii.com
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cycy

Tell me what's on fire.