Founder of VENTIQ · Maseru, Lesotho

Amohelang Thoabala.

Full stack engineer. I build and run VENTIQ, a platform organisations in Lesotho rely on for ticketing and for meetings that write their own minutes: the code, the AI and the servers.

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Amohelang Thoabala
StackLaravel · React · TS
In productionSince 2024
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check-ins load-tested on a single-core server

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faster than real time: speech to text on our own hardware

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or less from the end of a 2-hour meeting to its minutes

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automated tests run on every change

The work

VENTIQ.
Two products, one platform.

I founded VENTIQ and built it end to end: product, design, code and operations. Boards, NGOs and event organisers in Lesotho run on it.

ventiq.co.ls/sessions
The VENTIQ Sessions desk: meetings happening now, ready to review, coming up, and action points due
AI minutes Minutes of a meeting in VENTIQ, with action points and the notes they were written from
VENTIQ Sessions

Meetings that write their own minutes

Record on a phone, follow on a laptop, and have formal minutes moments after the meeting ends.

  • Live capture across devices, kept in step in real time
  • Whisper transcription and local LLMs: meeting audio never leaves the country
  • QR self check-in, signed registers, certificates and action points
  • Ask questions across a whole meeting history (embeddings and RAG)
VENTIQ Events

Ticketing, payments and the door

For organisers selling tickets in Lesotho, from the listing to admission.

  • EcoCash and M-Pesa payments with verification and reconciliation
  • QR tickets and a React Native scanner app for admission
  • WhatsApp and email notifications
  • Fees invoiced automatically into the accounting system
How it's built

A small budget,
run like a serious system.

Tested, secured and measured, with private AI on our own hardware.

Product engineering

Laravel 12, Inertia, React and TypeScript, Tailwind and shadcn/ui. Multi-tenant isolation, role-based access, usage billing, 500+ Pest tests.

Local, private AI

Whisper and Ollama on dedicated hardware in Lesotho, over a private network. Long meetings summarised in parts so nothing is lost.

Integrations

Mobile money through PayLesotho, the WhatsApp Cloud API, transactional email and accounting APIs for invoices.

Operations

Ubuntu, nginx and PHP-FPM; deploys that roll back on failure; hardened servers, security audits, load tests and a capacity dashboard.

Experience

Where I've worked

Oct 2024 – present

Founder & Lead Full Stack Engineer

VENTIQ · Maseru, Lesotho

Founded and built a multi-tenant SaaS platform with two products, from product strategy and pricing to code, AI and production operations.

Mar – Jul 2024

Mid-Senior Full Stack Developer (part-time)

InfoDocs · Remote, South Africa

Built a Share Options module in Laravel end to end; refactored legacy APIs for performance and authentication security; defined API contracts with the Angular team.

Aug 2022 – Sep 2024

Health Information Officer (Systems & Technical Support)

ICAP – Columbia University · Lesotho

Supported national health information systems (DHIS2, OpenMRS, eRegister) across facilities; SQL validation and reconciliation; Linux servers and automation; staff training.

May 2021 – Sep 2022

Full Stack Software Developer

Chaperone Ltd · Maseru, Lesotho

React and TypeScript front ends on C# .NET Core services; secure REST APIs with OAuth2 and Swagger; clean architecture; Android apps.

Oct 2021

Junior Software Developer

Tile Expert · Remote

Migrated legacy HTML to React and Redux; Docker development environments.

2016 – 2018

Laboratory Assistant

National University of Lesotho · Roma

Supported the computer laboratories and tutored students in C, C++ and Java.

Skills

What I work with

Languages

PHPTypeScriptJavaScriptC#SQLBashJavaC++

Back end

Laravel 12ASP.NET CoreREST APIsQueuesRBACMulti-tenancy

Front end

ReactInertia.jsTailwind CSSshadcn/uiRedux ToolkitAngularReact Native

AI & data

OllamaWhisperEmbeddings & RAGMariaDB / MySQLPostgreSQL

Operations

LinuxnginxsystemdGitHub ActionsDockerAWS EC2TailscaleLoad testing

Practice

PestGit & code reviewAgile / ScrumSwagger / OpenAPI

B.Sc. in Computer Science

National University of Lesotho, 2020

Google Cloud Computing Foundations

Alison, CPD accredited, 2023

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Let's talk

Let's build something.

Open to engineering roles, and to organisations that want VENTIQ.

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