Dacod Magagula
Co-Founder, CEO CTO At Foondamate
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolDacod Magagula is a software founder and engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building scalable web and backend systems, currently serving as Co-Founder, CEO and CTO of FoondaMate, a WhatsApp-based AI study buddy used by over 3 million students. He designs and ships chatbots and search-curation pipelines that bring affordable, curriculum-aligned study material to students with limited internet access, blending product leadership with low-level engineering. Earlier roles as a de facto senior developer at e-commerce and ad tech agencies honed his full-stack skills across PHP/Symfony/Magento, Python and deployment automation. A UCT Computer Science graduate from the Western Cape, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with the pragmatism of someone who’s built production systems from internships through to a mission-driven startup. Not immediately obvious: he moved from single-developer backend ownership to leading a consumer-facing AI product that scales to millions on messaging platforms.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of Cape TownMatric Certificate Science stream, Matric Certificate Science stream at Mandlesive Secondary School
English, siswati, Zulu, Xhosa, ndebele, south
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Github Skills (22)
visible8
json-api7
database-migration6
backend6
eve6
php6
symfony6
laravel6
symphony6
json5
admin4
magento4
parser4
google-sheets4
grid4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dacodmagagula/Magento2-MissingProductImagesReport
Jan 2020 - Oct 2020
Magento 2 module that creates an exportable grid in the admin backend with a list of all the visible products that do not have images linked to them.
Contributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 9 months
adminmagento-2magento2-modulevisiblemagento2
dacodmagagula/Symphony-Routing-Component-Example
Feb 2020 - Jan 2022
Example of symphony routing component being used in custom php project
Contributions:1 PR, 11 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 11 months
routingsymphonyphpphp-project
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