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COURTNEYMLAMBO

Independent creative

Designer
& Developer

Selected work — 07

2024 → Present

Evidence,not promises.

Seven featured builds — four shipped concepts plus three new platform concepts. Each one explains the problem, the decisions, and the owner's role.

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PortfolioProject_012025

TicketHub

Selling the ticket is the easy part. I built everything around it.

A full-stack event operating system spanning discovery, checkout, payments, ticket delivery, promoter operations, analytics and offline event-day access control.

Details

  • Event ticketing & operations platform
  • Design, frontend, backend, and system architecture
TicketHub — event discovery dashboard with After Hours hero
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PortfolioProject_022025

Pikksora

Creative work without the creative bottleneck.

An AI-native visual production platform that turns prompts, products and brand context into campaign-ready creative — then lets you refine everything with natural language.

Details

  • AI image creation & editing platform
  • Product strategy, UX architecture, and AI workflows
Pikksora — AI creation dashboard asking what you will create today
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PortfolioProject_032025

PostPilot

Your entire content operation. On autopilot, not asleep.

An AI social operating system for turning strategy into content, approvals, publishing, conversations and measurable growth across every channel.

Details

  • AI social media management workspace
  • Product strategy, canvas UX, and platform architecture
PostPilot — content calendar with scheduled campaign posts
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PortfolioProject_042025

Clientra

Support should understand the customer before the customer explains themselves.

An AI customer experience platform that unifies conversations, tickets, knowledge and customer history into one intelligent support workspace.

Details

  • AI customer experience platform
  • Product concept, CX workflows, and AI architecture
Clientra — client business overview dashboard
View Clientra case study
PortfolioProject_052026

Deliveer

Clients should never have to ask, “Any update?”

A polished project delivery portal that brings onboarding, milestones, files, approvals, requests and client communication into one shared source of truth.

Details

  • Client portal & project delivery
  • Product concept, portal UX, and delivery workflows
Deliveer — studio overview with active client projects
View Deliveer case study
PortfolioProject_062026

SalesMaster

A CRM that remembers everything — and tells you what to do next.

An AI-native sales platform that understands every lead, conversation and deal to surface risks, automate follow-ups and move revenue forward.

Details

  • AI-native CRM & sales workspace
  • Product concept, CRM workflows, and AI architecture
SalesMaster — sales overview dashboard with pipeline and revenue
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PortfolioProject_072026

DataEngine

Businesses don’t need more dashboards. They need answers.

A customer intelligence platform designed to connect marketing, sales, support, delivery and revenue data into one understandable view of the customer.

Details

  • Analytics & customer data platform
  • Product concept, data modelling, and analytics UX
DataEngine — analytics overview with funnels and revenue
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About

The human behind the work.

I'm Courtney — a designer and developer who turns ambitious, messy ideas into digital products that feel obvious once they exist. I trained in information technology, learned scale on real enterprise systems, and now build my own products end to end: idea, interface, architecture, code, and launch. I want the kind of work where the technology disappears and the experience just feels right.

Specialisms

Full-stack product engineering across TypeScript, databases, APIs, and AI systems.

Current focus

Ticketing infrastructure, creative tooling, and offline event-day operations.

Working approach

Systems first, thin vertical slices early, complexity hidden by design.

Hand-signed — Courtney Mlambo.

Capabilities

What I can help with

Interface designCalm, readable screens for ambitious products.

Deliverable: reviewed interface designs with a working component structure, from first flows to final states. Process: short discovery, iterative screens against real content, then handoff with the rules that keep it coherent.

Web developmentProduction web apps, built to stay fast.

Deliverable: a working application with clean architecture, responsive layouts, and measured performance. Process: vertical slices from day one, tested in the browser on real devices, shipped in reviewable increments.

Creative directionA point of view your product can hold.

Deliverable: an art direction with type, color, and composition rules the whole product follows. Process: references and editorial intent first, then signature moments — like the portrait plate — applied with restraint.

Interaction designMotion that helps people follow along.

Deliverable: transitions and reveals timed to the content, with reduced-motion behavior included. Process: static composition first, then progressive enhancement — nothing essential ever depends on animation.

Skills

What I work with

Full-stack product engineer with an AI-native core — TypeScript · Next.js · React · NestJS · PostgreSQL · Redis, shipping real systems from database to interface to infrastructure.

Frontend

  • Next.js
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Shadcn/UI
  • React Native

Backend & Languages

  • NestJS
  • Node.js
  • Express
  • FastAPI
  • Laravel
  • Phoenix
  • Python
  • PHP
  • Elixir
  • Bash

Data & Auth

  • PostgreSQL
  • Supabase
  • MySQL
  • SQLite
  • Redis
  • Clerk

AI

  • OpenAI
  • Gemini
  • Vertex AI
  • DeepSeek
  • GLM
  • TensorFlow / Keras
  • scikit-learn
  • pandas
  • AI Agents

Cloud & DevOps

  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Ansible
  • Linux / VPS
  • Cloudflare Workers
  • Cloudflare Pages
  • Cloudflare R2
  • Google Cloud
  • Cloud Run
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • GitHub

Product Plumbing

  • Stripe
  • EcoCash
  • Resend
  • Sanity CMS
  • REST / OpenAPI
  • Webhooks
  • pnpm workspaces

Contact

Let's make something matter.

A product, a business, or an idea that keeps coming back at 2AM? hire@courtneym.online
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