onemanstack started with a layoff. Msizi Shangase founded it and runs it: the engineering, the operations and every client project, from Pretoria, South Africa. His sister, Siphokazi Masuku, helps with marketing part-time.
Founder · Software Engineer
The founder and engineer behind onemanstack. He turned a layoff into a business, runs every part of it day to day, and brings four-plus years of real, hands-on experience to every project.
Diploma in ICT: Applications Development, DUT
Marketing · Part-time
Msizi's sister. She helps with marketing part-time, getting the work in front of the people it is meant for, and sometimes sits in on client meetings.
Diploma in ICT: Applications Development, DUT
It didn't start with a business plan. It started with a layoff.
Msizi had always wanted to build something of his own, but went the conventional route first: a software engineering job straight out of varsity. It didn't stay conventional for long. Barely out of school, he was carrying responsibilities closer to a senior engineer's than a junior's, a steep and fast education.
Four-plus years of real, hands-on engineering behind me and, honestly, nothing left to lose.
When that job ended, so did the reason to wait. He started onemanstack, and "one man" is still close to literal: every layer of the stack, handled by one person. That was never a philosophy. It is where things stand, with a plan to grow into a team as the work grows.
His sister Siphokazi helps along the way, part-time, with marketing and the occasional client meeting. Family is where you find the people who believe in the idea before there is anything to show for it. Everything else, the engineering, the operations and the client work, runs through Msizi.
Msizi designs, builds, deploys and runs every project, and the business around it.
Siphokazi helps with marketing part-time, so the work reaches the right people.
You deal with Msizi directly, from the first call to launch and beyond. No support queue.
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