I'm Ashtin, a developer and product-minded engineer based in Cape Town, working at the intersection of web applications, platform reliability, and self-hosted systems.
By day I work as a Product Support Engineer, helping keep a global SaaS platform stable, scalable, and easy to use. Outside of work I enjoy building full-stack projects with Next.js, React, Node.js and SQL, often deploying them on Raspberry Pi / Linux just to understand systems end-to-end.
I like solving practical problems, improving developer workflows, and building things that real people use.
- 🍳 Muncharoo — full-stack recipe platform (Next.js + Tailwind + shadcn + MariaDB)
- 📊 Pi Dashboard — self-hosted multi-app hub for my home server
- 🎮 Tenfinity — casual puzzle game built with React
- Advanced React patterns & performance
- Node.js APIs and backend architecture
- CI/CD, PM2, Nginx & deployment pipelines
- Databases + data modelling
Frontend
- React / Next.js
- Tailwind CSS
- shadcn UI
Backend & Data
- Node.js
- SQL (MariaDB / MySQL)
DevOps & Hosting
- Linux & Raspberry Pi
- Nginx
- PM2
🔗 https://ashtin.walterhouse.co.za
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📧 Email: ashtin@walterhouse.co.za
I enjoy understanding how systems fit together — from UI to database to deployment. I like clean, maintainable code and products that solve real problems. And yes, I still believe coffee → code ☕➡️💻
Thanks for stopping by — feel free to check out my projects or say hi 🙂