Cape Town, South Africa. Available for work.

Ayanda Phaketsi

I'm a software engineer. I build AI tools, Android apps and full-stack products, and I take them far enough that people actually use them.

Selected work

All 11 projects

rednexa

Nexa is a capstone project that addresses the critical issue of limited internet access in rural and township communities…

KotlinDTNAndroidJetpack Compose

clia

clia is an advanced, conversational AI assistant for software engineering, implemented as a command-line tool (CLI) and a web UI.

PythonGoogle GeminiGenAILLM

ayanda

AIDA (AI-Driven Assistant) is a full-stack personal command center built with Next.js 15, MongoDB, and the Google Gemini API.

TypeScriptNext.js 15React 19MongoDB

MemGallery

MemGallery is an AI-powered memory assistant Android app that democratizes brand-exclusive features like OPPO's Mind Space and Nothing's Essential Space…

KotlinAndroidJetpack ComposeMaterial Design 3

About

Ayanda Phaketsi

I finished a BSc in Computer Science at the University of Cape Town in March 2026, majoring in computer science and business computing. Most of what I know came from building things that had to work.

The problems I like are the ones where the engineering is hard and the person using it isn't technical at all: offline-first messaging for areas with no signal, study tools for students who can't pay for tutoring, AI assistants that do the work instead of demoing it. I mostly write TypeScript, Python, Kotlin, Java and C#.

In 2025 my team won the Entelect University Challenge, and we placed second at the Predictive Insights hackathon.

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Contact

If you're hiring, or you want something built, write to me. I read everything and I answer.

ayandaphaketsi@gmail.com