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Software that
ships. thinks. scales. lasts.

I'm Eugene, a South African .NET developer and AI integration specialist with 20+ years across retail and corporate I.T. I design, build and run production systems end-to-end, from Blazor front ends and ASP.NET Core APIs to LLM agents wired into the tools your business already uses.

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20+Years in I.T.
Retail × CorpSector depth
Full-stackUI → API → DB → Cloud
1:1Zero hand-offs
ClaimsTriage.cs · example run
// An AI agent, wired into systems you already own
var agent = chat.CreateAIAgent(
instructions: "Triage claims. Always cite the policy.",
tools: [Policies.Search, Crm.Lookup, Assessors.Route]);
 
var reply = await agent.RunAsync(claim.Text);
 
$ dotnet run --project Triage.Api
▸ tool Policies.Search("motor, windscreen") 212ms
▸ tool Crm.Lookup(policy: "MV-20931") 88ms
▸ tool Assessors.Route(priority: High) 41ms
✓ Routed to Motor Assessor · confidence 0.94
✓ PII redacted · POPIA audit entry written
✓ Evals passing (48/48)
.NET 10 · C# 14
POPIA-aware by design
Claude · GPT · Azure AI
.NET 10C#BlazorASP.NET CoreAzureClaudeAzure OpenAISemantic KernelMCPSQL ServerPostgreSQLEntity FrameworkDockerGitHub ActionsRabbitMQService BusTypeScriptReactMAUIVector search
RAG knowledge assistantsClaims triage agentsPOS integrationsBlazor portalsMCP serversLegacy migrationsDocument AICI/CD pipelinesDemand forecastingERP syncWhatsApp assistantsCustomer portals
20+
Years building software for retail and corporate South Africa
100%
Of the code written by the person you're talking to
2 wks
Typical time to a working AI prototype on your own data
1
Accountable engineer, from first call to production
See it in action

42 days to Black Friday. Watch it ship.

How a project runs, in 98 seconds: a stock system nobody dares touch, a prototype on the client's own data in about two weeks, weekly demos, tested AI, and every store live with days to spare.

What's your deadline?

Book a free 30-minute call

Illustrative scenario: Kransveld Outdoor is a fictional retailer and every figure is an example. Real timelines depend on scope.

Video page with chapters and transcript

What I do

One senior engineer.
The whole stack.

Strategy, architecture, code, cloud and AI, delivered by someone who has spent two decades in the trenches of real businesses.

Flagship

AI Integration & Agents

Turn large language models into dependable business features: assistants that answer from your documents, agents that act through your APIs, and copilots embedded in the apps your people already use. Every build ships with evaluations, guardrails and cost controls.

  • RAG over SharePoint, SQL & PDFs
  • Tool-calling agents & MCP servers
  • Document & email automation
  • Evals, red-teaming & monitoring
Example eval report · illustrative figures48/48 passing
Answer accuracy
96.4%
Faithfulness
98.1%
P95 latency
1.21 s
Cost per query
R0.031
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.NET & Blazor Development

Web apps, APIs and internal tools on modern .NET, built clean, tested and easy for your team to own.

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Legacy Modernisation

WebForms, WinForms, WCF and old .NET Framework estates moved to modern .NET, without stopping the business.

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Retail & POS Systems

POS integrations, stock and pricing engines, loyalty and ERP sync, from someone who knows how retail actually runs.

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Cloud & DevOps

Azure architecture, CI/CD pipelines, containers, observability and cost tuning, so releases are boring and bills are predictable.

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Technical Advisory

Fractional tech lead, architecture reviews and AI strategy for leaders who need a straight answer.

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Completed work

Projects that shipped.

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Practical AI

AI that survives contact with production.

Demos are easy. Systems that stay accurate, secure and affordable on a Tuesday afternoon in month six are not. I engineer the whole pipeline, not just the prompt.

  • Model-agnostic. Claude, GPT, Gemini or open models; swap without a rewrite.
  • Measured, not vibes. Golden datasets and automated evals gate every release.
  • Cost-controlled. Caching, routing and budgets keep the token bill sane.
  • POPIA-aware. PII redaction, data residency options and full audit trails.
How AI-ready are you? See the pipeline
Knowledge Assistant RAG · your documents · cited answers
Scripted example
What's our return policy for online orders?

Online orders can be returned to any store within 30 days with proof of purchase. Refunds go back to the original payment method within 5–7 working days.

Returns-Policy.pdf · p.3 Store-Ops-Manual.docx · §4.2
  1. Retrieve38 ms
  2. Re-rank21 ms
  3. Generate640 ms
  4. Safety14 ms
  5. Cite3 ms
confidence 0.96 cost R0.03 PII redacted model swappable
How we'll work

From first call to production, without the drama.

A simple, transparent process built around small steps, weekly demos and decisions you can see.

01
Week 0

Discover

A free 30-minute call, then a short scoping session. You get a clear plan, risks and an estimate, in plain language.

02
Weeks 1–3

Prototype

A working slice on your real data, fast. We prove the value, or learn cheaply that we shouldn't build it.

03
Sprints

Build & integrate

Short iterations with weekly demos. Tested, documented code in your repositories from day one.

04
Ongoing

Run & improve

Monitoring, support and continuous improvement on a simple monthly retainer, or a clean hand-over to your team.

Why a one-person company

Senior expertise, without the overhead.

You're not paying for account managers, juniors learning on your project, or a big office. You're paying for outcomes.

Typical agency

  • Sold by seniors, built by juniors
  • Requirements lost between account manager, PM and devs
  • Overheads baked into every hourly rate
  • Team rotates; knowledge walks out the door
  • AI treated as a buzzword on the proposal

Admin Software

  • 20+ years of experience on every line of code
  • Talk directly to the engineer; decisions in minutes, not weeks
  • Lean pricing, with no layers of overhead
  • Continuity: the person who built it supports it
  • Hands-on AI engineering, measured with real evals
Where I add value

Built for how South African businesses really run.

Retail

POS, pricing, stock, loyalty and omnichannel. Load-shedding-resilient by design.

Financial services

Advice copilots, document intelligence and compliance-heavy workflows.

Insurance

Claims triage, policy Q&A and broker portals with audit trails.

Healthcare

Booking portals and summarisation with PII redaction for POPIA.

Logistics

Tracking APIs, telemetry ingestion and route intelligence.

Corporate I.T.

Intranets, integrations and modernising the systems everyone depends on.

FAQ

Good questions, straight answers.

Isn't a one-person company a risk?

It's a fair question. I mitigate it the way good engineering teams do: your code lives in your repositories, infrastructure is defined as code, everything is documented, and nothing depends on knowledge in my head. Many clients find it less risky than an agency, where the people who built the system often move on.

Where are you based, and do you work remotely?

I'm based in South Africa and work remotely with clients across the country and internationally, in the SAST time zone. When it matters, such as workshops or go-lives, I'm happy to be on site.

How do you price projects?

Three ways: fixed-scope for well-defined deliverables, time & materials for evolving work, and a monthly retainer for ongoing support and improvement. Quotes are in Rand, with no surprises.

Which AI models and platforms do you use?

Whatever fits your problem, budget and data policies: Anthropic Claude, OpenAI / Azure OpenAI, Google Gemini or open-weight models you can host yourself. I build behind abstractions such as Microsoft.Extensions.AI so you're never locked in.

What about POPIA and data privacy?

Privacy is designed in from the first conversation: data minimisation, PII redaction before anything reaches a model, data-residency options, role-based access and audit logging. I'll also flag where you need your Information Officer involved.

Can you work alongside my existing team?

Absolutely. I often slot in as a senior engineer or tech lead, pairing with in-house developers, reviewing code and leaving the team stronger than I found it.

Who owns the code?

You do. Source code, infrastructure and documentation live in your repositories and cloud accounts from day one.

Let's build something

Have a project that needs a senior pair of hands?

Tell me what you're trying to achieve. Within one business day you'll get an honest view of whether, and how, I can help.

Book a free 30-minute call [email protected]

No sales team, no hand-offs. You'll speak directly to the engineer who builds it.

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