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Lenard Francis

I am incredibly curious about where systems break and how to fix them before it costs money. >
I don't follow the traditional 'Senior Developer' path. I’m an AI-leveraged architect who uses tools like Claude and Cursor to build production-grade infrastructure at 10x speed. For me, coding isn't about syntax; it's about System Design and Risk Mitigation.

Currently, I’m building AnchorFlow, a financial orchestration platform for the informal economy. Along the way, I’ve open-sourced fastapi-alertengine—a stability circuit backed by 259 passing tests. I believe in 'Zero SaaS Tax' observability.


Coding for the Mayor: How I used AI to solve a 1,000-guest "Diplomatic" Crisis

When my wife and I married last year, it was a reputational challenge. As a high-profile lawyer/influencer, her 1,000+ guest list included judges and the Mayor. I couldn’t send generic cards, so I built a Python engine with dynamic text placement and a retry-logic dispatch via GitHub Pages. That wedding was my first test of zero-failure engineering—the same principle now powering my FastAPI Observability Engine.

  1. The "Rugged" Financial Orchestration Platform

    I’m building AnchorFlow to solve the high-stakes logistics of the informal economy. It’s a financial system engineered for environments where bandwidth is low but failure isn't an option. By applying the same "zero-failure" logic used in my wedding engine and AlertEngine, I'm creating a platform that turns passive monitoring into active recovery for real-time mobile money and fintech transactions.

    Sandboxing May 2026Preparing for Central bank sandbox
  2. I built my own observability engine because the alternatives cost more than my server

    Building AnchorFlow, a payment orchestration platform on mobile money rails in Zimbabwe, I needed monitoring that acted — not just reported. Datadog was $400/month. Prometheus took days. Neither told me what to do when something broke. So I built fastapi-alertengine: one middleware, embedded directly into FastAPI, that learns your baseline, detects degradation early, and suggests authorized recovery actions in seconds. Zero SaaS bill. Zero vendor lock-in.

    Launched — live and available$0 — pre-revenue, open source

Github Repo

https://github.com/Tandem-Media/fastapi-alertengine

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I built FastAPI AlertEngine while building a payment platform at 2am in Zimbabwe 🇿🇼

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