@omzsi

Omar Ceesay

I make things. That's the whole job description.

As a kid I asked too many questions. I still do. I'm still amazed by the universe and how things really work under the surface, and that curiosity turned into a quest to build things that hasn't ended yet. I've built a lot, across code, things and art. The world has seen about one percent of it.

These days that quest points home. Restaurants, guesthouses and event venues here run on software built somewhere else, for someone else, and resold to them with no control and nobody to call when it breaks. I look at that and see what I've always seen: it could be built better, and it could be built from here.

So I'm building it.

omzsi · the gambia

what I'm building

A Mangfa table card for Kora Kitchen, Terrace T3, with a QR code and the words 'Scan to see the menu and order from your seat' — 1. scan the card

The guest menu on a phone: 'You're at Terrace T3, Kora Kitchen, order below and we'll bring it over', with the menu categories — 2. order on your phone

The Live orders screen in the Mangfa back office: eight open orders by table, each marked sent, cooking or served — 3. kitchen sees it

Kora Kitchen is a demo venue. The numbers are made up.

Mangfa

founder · Go, Next.js, PostgreSQL, Android till

One pipeline for the whole restaurant. The guest scans a QR menu the owner updated from their phone five minutes ago. The order lands on our point of sale and goes straight to the kitchen. The owner sees all of it, live, with reports on how the place is really doing. Every business also gets a profile with its menu and hours, so the ones that never had a website now do.

Online ordering and delivery, run from the same back office, are next.

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Mangfa Stay

short-term stays

Friends coming home from abroad had nowhere local to book a stay. Hosts had five dashboards and no single picture. Mangfa Stay is one platform for guests and one back office for hosts, in sync with Booking.com, Airbnb and the rest.

Motherland Events Center's events page: three upcoming nights, each with its poster, door time, price and a Get tickets button — what's on

The Get tickets panel on an event page: Regular D300, VIP D700 and Table D10,000 with quantity steppers, stock left, and a Checkout button — pick your tickets

Motherland's checkout on a phone: Wave Mobile Money selected as the payment option, and one Regular ticket for Double Oath at D300 in the order summary — pay with Wave

Mangfa Events

ticketing · WordPress, WooCommerce, custom plugins

Ticketing for Gambian events that takes Gambian money. Two plugins I wrote: one that takes mobile-money payments like Wave through WooCommerce, one that wires Tickera's ticketing into the checkout. Built first for Motherland Events Center, which still runs on it. More venues on the way.

Omar presenting at the front of a training room, with the SMC child-treatment form projected on the wall — SMC training

A group photo of about thirty volunteers in a training hall, many holding up one finger — Kombo North volunteers

Omar handing a packed mosquito net from the back of a pickup to people waiting in a village — mass ITN distribution

A campaign team in gloves and vests checking a card and handing out nets in a village — mass ITN, CRR

Omar in a blue campaign shirt unpacking a sack of mosquito nets beside a pickup, a woman with a baby on her back in front — bed net campaign

A conference room of health staff around a long table with laptops open on spreadsheets — data viz workshop

National Malaria Control Programme

ICT4D · SMC, mass ITN, case-based surveillance

Not everything I build is a product. With the programme I've been in the field and in the room: seasonal malaria chemoprevention, mass ITN and LLIN distribution, and case-based malaria surveillance, which I was part of when it went digital.

I sat in data-integration workshops with the Senegal side, built the forms field teams collect data with and the dashboards the programme reads it on, and trained hundreds of volunteers and health staff to use them.

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