Connecting the Unconnected
Qeelo
DevOps
Sysadmin
language qeelo.co.za
Development began September 2021
Launched December 2021
Project finalised January 2023
With a close friend we created a Startup with the aim of providing WhatsApp business chat services to supermarkets in impoverished areas in South Africa.
The aim was to provide a safe way for customers of a supermarket to be able to view pricing and pamphlets during Covid lockdowns.
My role was as the sole developer and systems engineer for the entire platform. We quickly had a small fleet of servers sharing load on handling messages, broadcasts, databases, and a user facing control panel. Live chat was later implemented via the client control panel so customers of the supermarkets could interact with the supermarket themselves.
At one point we boasted securely patched servers with a 100% service uptime over a span of 8 months while having delivered close to 1.5 million messages.