I build systems for limited infrastructure and long-term maintenance

I build web platforms and study applied computing where infrastructure, cost, access, and maintenance shape technical decisions.

Bernard Ngandu

Teams I have built software with

Itot AfricaLeganewsProUniversité Nouveaux HorizonsVelocomGoodBytesAuto LubumbashiLegalterLawItot AfricaLeganewsProUniversité Nouveaux HorizonsVelocomGoodBytesAuto LubumbashiLegalterLaw
Selected work

Selected software and research projects

Selected projects and research with enough context to explain the constraints, tradeoffs, and outcomes.

2026

Leganews Pro

A search and monitoring platform for Congolese legal texts

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2025

Basango

A low-cost pipeline for collecting and organizing news from Congolese media

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About

Software engineering and research with limited infrastructure

My work combines implementation and evaluation. After launch, I focus on maintenance, reliability, cost, access, and clear ownership.

Built and maintained production platforms across legal, education, media, recruitment, and internal operations.

Worked with teams in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Europe, often with limited infrastructure or operating capacity.

Researching applied computing where infrastructure, cost, data quality, and access shape technical decisions.

Writing

Engineering notes and research

Notes on software engineering, architecture, deployments, and the research questions behind them.

July 23, 2026

Making system time an explicit dependency in Symfony

Why reading the system clock inside business logic creates nondeterministic behavior, and how an explicit Clock port makes expiry, validity, scheduling, persistence, and time-sensitive tests predictable.

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