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Projects

A curated selection of things I have shipped — from consumer products to open-source tooling.

EquiShift Assistant preview

EquiShift Assistant

An AI-powered shift scheduling assistant that ensures every team member gets an equal share of shifts each month. Built for businesses that operate 24/7 with rotating rosters — select colleagues, balance workloads, and eliminate scheduling bias automatically.

TypeScriptCSS
CrimeSpot CPT preview

CrimeSpot CPT

Crime awareness dashboard for Cape Town — real-time suburb-level crime intelligence, severity-coded alerts, and heatmap visualisation. Built for safety, not surveillance.

TypeScriptPythonPostgreSQL+2
World Cup 2026 Predictor preview

World Cup 2026 Predictor

World Cup 2026 match outcome, xG, and penalty predictor. Python ML models served via FastAPI to a Next.js front end. Simulate individual matches or entire group stages across the full 48-team tournament.

PythonFastAPITypeScript+1

About

MalaKai Mathins
6+Years Experience
UE5Unreal Engine
AWSCloud Certified
DSData Science
ZASouth Africa

MalaKai
Mathins

I'm a software and video game developer from South Africa with 6+ years of experience across both disciplines. I blend engineering rigour with creative expression — from building full-stack web and mobile apps to crafting immersive game worlds in Unreal Engine, and analysing complex datasets with modern data engineering tools.

My toolkit spans cloud infrastructure, 3D modeling, animation, rigging, digital art, video editing, and data science (lakehouses, warehouses, Microsoft Fabric, Jupyter notebooks). I thrive at the intersection of technology and creativity — currently deepening my TypeScript expertise and actively building ALT Earth, an original game project.

  • Full-stack web & mobile development
  • Unreal Engine 4 & 5 game development
  • 3D modeling, animation & rigging
  • AWS certified cloud practitioner
  • Digital art & Adobe Creative Suite
  • IT security & infrastructure
  • Data science & lake/warehouse architecture
  • Microsoft Fabric & Jupyter notebooks

03 / Skills & Tools

Every tool
in the stack.

FRONTEND85%BACKEND73%DATA76%INFRA71%DESIGN74%
Frontend85
Backend73
Data76
Infra71
Design74
Frontend
95/ 100

React

Proficiency

Component architecture, hooks, context, suspense & concurrent rendering patterns.

ReactBlazorNext.jsTypeScriptTailwind CSSThree.jsGSAPWeb ComponentsNode.jsExpress.jsDjangoFastAPIRuby on RailsGolangSpring BootLaravelNestJSPythonC#PostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBSQLiteCassandraDynamoDBSupabaseFirebaseMicrosoft FabricDockerKubernetesNginxKafkaRabbitMQElasticsearchgRPCJWT AuthAWSGCPAzureCloudflareVercelHerokuTerraformFigmaFramerBlenderUnreal Engine 5Unreal Engine 4UnityPhotopeaAdobe PhotoshopAdobe IllustratorAdobe After EffectsAdobe Premiere ProSplineReactBlazorNext.jsTypeScriptTailwind CSSThree.jsGSAPWeb ComponentsNode.jsExpress.jsDjangoFastAPIRuby on RailsGolangSpring BootLaravelNestJSPythonC#PostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBSQLiteCassandraDynamoDBSupabaseFirebaseMicrosoft FabricDockerKubernetesNginxKafkaRabbitMQElasticsearchgRPCJWT AuthAWSGCPAzureCloudflareVercelHerokuTerraformFigmaFramerBlenderUnreal Engine 5Unreal Engine 4UnityPhotopeaAdobe PhotoshopAdobe IllustratorAdobe After EffectsAdobe Premiere ProSpline

Get In Touch

Contact

Have a project in mind or just want to say hi? I'd love to hear from you.

Available for freelance work

I'm a software and game developer based in South Africa, open to remote freelance projects, collaborations, and interesting conversations. Whether you're building a product, a game, or something that defies categorisation — reach out.

Typical response time: within 24 hours.