Selected work

Projects

Projects explained through their constraints, tradeoffs, and implementation choices.

All System Design

2026

Leganews Pro

A versioned Congolese legal corpus with editorial review, search, monitoring, and subscription access

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2025

Basango

Congolese news collection with a Rust crawler, a TanStack Start dashboard, and searchable article data

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Open source

Public packages and tools I maintain

Public libraries and integrations for payments, developer tools, shared infrastructure, and workflow automation.

10 stars / 1 fork

The Tinify API allows you to compress and optimize WebP, JPEG and PNG images. It is designed as a REST service. This page describes the raw HTTP API. We also maintain client libraries in various languages that make it very easy to interact with the Tinify API.

GitHub

30 stars / 3 forks

ngandu-dev/maxicash-php

The MaxiCash integration platform enables merchants to integrate with the MaxiCash platform to receive payments via their mobile applications or websites. The API uses JSON to interact with .Net or open source platforms such as PHP.

GitHub

8 stars / 4 forks

ngandu-dev/flexpay-php

Flexpay provides a convenient way to handle payments using various mobile money platforms such as Airtel Money, Orange Money, Afrimoney, and M-Pesa. It works with a mobile money payment aggregator in the Republic Democratic of Congo.

GitHub

13 stars / 3 forks

ngandu-dev/pexels

The Pexels API enables programmatic access to the full Pexels content library, including photos, videos. All content is available free of charge, and you are welcome to use Pexels content for anything you'd like, as long as it is within our Guidelines.

GitHub

9 stars / 1 fork