Tungamirai Mangombe

Senior software engineer, Brisbane

I build backend services at Sony Interactive Entertainment (PlayStation). Before that I worked on betting and lottery platforms at Entain and Jumbo Interactive. This page is the other half: what I have built on my own time since 2014.

Projects

2025–now

Check Your AI

A review gate that sits between an AI model and the people who use its output. Rules written in Lua approve a response, reject it, or send it to a person to check. The rules can be changed without a deployment, and the corrected response goes back to your app by webhook.

Elixir, Phoenix, PostgreSQL, Lua

checkyour.ai

Check Your AI home page, headed “Human review and validation rules for AI you can trust”.

2024–2025

Coretake

A search engine for scientific papers, for people who need to get through a reading list. Every paper comes with a plain-language summary written by a language model, and a citation ready to paste in APA, MLA, Chicago or Harvard style.

Laravel, PHP

coretake.com

Coretake home page, headed “Finish your paper faster. Understand the core concepts of a paper.”

2023

Fire On Track

A budgeting tool for people working towards financial independence and early retirement. It tracks income, expenses and savings rate, and projects how the balance compounds. An assistant answers questions with your own figures as context, using retrieval over Pinecone and the OpenAI API.

Next.js, TypeScript, Go, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Pinecone

fireontrack.com

Fire On Track home page, showing expense breakdowns and a compound growth chart.

2019–2021

Visa Not Required

Pick a passport, or several, and see which countries you can enter without a visa. It runs as four services: a Go API and scraper, a Node.js backend and a React frontend, deployed with Jenkins to Docker Swarm on DigitalOcean.

Go, Node.js, React, Docker Swarm, Jenkins

visanotrequired.com

Visa Not Required home page, asking “I want visa requirements for citizens of?” above a country search box.

Earlier

2017

Chiitiko

An event sharing app built for places with poor connectivity. It leans on service workers and in-browser data stores so it stays usable when the network does not.

Go, Gin, React, AWS DynamoDB

chiitiko.app

2014–2016

Hostile Encounter

A real-time 3D action strategy game for Android, with enemy AI I wrote myself. Published on Google Play, where it has passed 1,000 downloads.

Unity 3D, C#

Google Play listing