About me

Hello, I’m John — a Software Engineer from Livingstone, Zambia.

I’ve been writing code since 2014, starting out self-taught and building from there. Over the past decade I’ve worked independently across a range of projects: backend systems in Go and Node.js, cloud infrastructure on GCP, AWS, and Azure, CI/CD pipelines, and web development.

Most of my client work is under NDA, but you can get a sense of how I think and build through my blog posts and the Craters project — an open-source TypeScript game framework.

I’m currently completing a Bachelor’s in Software Engineering at the Zambia University College of Technology (ZUCT), where coursework reinforces the fundamentals I’ve been applying in practice for years.

I’m available for contract work. The best way to reach me is john@swana.dev.