Chizulu Zephaniah

Founder and CTO

Collana · Halifax, Nova Scotia

Nov 2025 – Present

•Spearheading the end-to-end development of a full-stack internship marketplace for students, earning formal recognition from the Black Business Institute (BBI) in Atlantic Canada. •Integrated secure authentication and role-based access control with JWT and Supabase Auth, ensuring data privacy compliance and reliable session handling across multiple devices. Deployed and containerized the system on AWS EC2 using Docker and GitHub Actions CI/CD, enabling zero downtime and scalable performance.

Lead Web Developer - Dalhousie Machine Learning Society and Dalhousie Consulting Association

Dalhousie University · Halifax Nova Scotia

Sep 2025 – Dec 2025

Architected and executed a full-stack migration of two high-traffic society websites from static HTML to a React.js MPA (Multiple Page Application), improving performance and boosting SEO/traffic by over 35%. Designed and implemented a scalable PostgreSQL schema managed by Supabase, leveraging custom API endpoints to power dynamic user dashboards and self-service content management. Integrated an API-driven headless CMS (Strapi) for asynchronous content delivery, reducing internal content update latency by 80%, and aligned the technical roadmap with key stakeholders and budget constraints while establishing the CI/CD pipeline.

Technical Lead / Director of AR Development

Dalhousie University · Halifax Nova Scotia

Jul 2025 – Sep 2025

Architected and directed the development of a high-performance, open-source modular Augmented Reality (AR) Molecule visualization engine using Three.js and WebXR, supporting 100+ active users in Dalhousie University. Engineered custom, GPU-accelerated rendering pipelines using GLSL shaders and advanced physics-based rendering (PBR) techniques to achieve 60 FPS frame rates and photorealistic molecule visualization on mobile and laptop Devices. Established robust, enterprise-grade Azure CI/CD pipelines for automated build, testing, and deployment, reducing integration defects by 25% and ensuring seamless cross-platform compatibility.