Founding engineer · Cape Town

I build software from the core system to the screen.

I’m Yao Weng, a founding engineer at MindFront. Most of my time goes into SynthGrid: platform, product, integrations, deployment, and the operational work that keeps it running.

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Yao Weng in a blue suit, standing outdoors — Yao WengCape Town · 2026

Role: Founding engineer
Core work: SynthGrid
Range: System → interface
Based: Cape Town

Selected work / 01–03

What I’ve built.

01 / MindFront · Primary focus

Founding engineer

SynthGrid

AI connected to the software a business already uses.

I work across the core platform, web product, integrations, approval system, deployment, and day-to-day operations.

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Context Action S Approval Record

Core platform
Web app
Integrations
Approval flows
Deployments
Operations

02 / Agnomen

Game + launch

Fingerbox

I help build the game and handle much of its launch work, including the team’s gameplay and decision map and the web experience around it.

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03 / Workshop

Small, useful software

Tools that finish the job.

Apple Music CLIOpen source
GleanLocal research + transcription
Voice Memo SearchOn-device transcript search
Maps List BuilderResearch to a real saved list

About

I stay with the problem until the whole thing works.

I’m an engineer in Cape Town. I like work that crosses product and engineering, where understanding the whole system matters as much as writing the code.

Independent work / Argonotics

Working on a difficult product or system?

Send me what should happen, what happens now, and where it breaks.

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