Gordon's Bay, South Africa · Available for engagements

Software
engineering &
AI consulting.

We build robust full-stack systems, data pipelines, and AI products for companies in telecom, fintech, and beyond. Senior engineering, delivered end to end.

Let's Work Together What We Do
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What We Do

Engineering,
end to end.

We take on contract and consulting engagements — from architecture and delivery to modernisation and integration. Senior-level experience across telecom and fintech, brought to your team.

01
Backend & Distributed Systems
Robust, scalable services and APIs across C#/.NET, Java/Spring Boot, and Python — event-driven architecture, high-throughput processing, and production-grade reliability.
02
Data Pipelines & Automation
ETL and data-processing pipelines, scheduling and workflow automation, and integrations across PostgreSQL, Oracle, and cloud — turning manual processes into reliable systems.
03
AI-Augmented Development
LLM integration and agentic workflows built into real products — from AI-powered features to full applications, using modern tooling to ship faster without cutting corners.
04
Modernisation & Integration
Migrating legacy systems toward maintainable architecture, wiring up third-party services and payment flows, and hardening security and CI/CD across the delivery lifecycle.
Selected Work

Products we've
built.

Real products designed, built, and shipped through Santorini AI — proof of what we bring to client work.

Live · Beta
Lyra
A personal AI companion.

A personal AI companion with persistent memory — notes, habits, health, and goals, held together by an assistant that remembers context across every conversation.

Persistent Memory React / Node PostgreSQL LLM Integration
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Coming Soon
Rokkit
AI-driven security.

An AI security platform for fraud detection, compliance monitoring, and vulnerability detection — surfacing and helping remediate risk across modern applications.

Fraud Detection Compliance Vulnerability Scanning Python
Coming Soon
In Development
Ryze
AI trading infrastructure.

An AI-driven trading pipeline — automated data ingestion, signal processing, and execution logic, built on a Python/FastAPI and React stack for speed and reliability.

Python / FastAPI React PostgreSQL Real-Time Data
In Development
"Robust systems.
Shipped with care."
Engineering over hype
Solid architecture and clean delivery, not buzzwords.
Built for scale
Mission-critical experience from telecom and fintech.
Africa first, world class
Based in Gordon's Bay. Delivering everywhere.
About

The team
behind the work.

Engineers building mission-critical systems across telecom and fintech.

We're Santorini AI — a software and AI consultancy building full-stack systems, data pipelines, and AI products for businesses that want them done properly.

The company was founded by Santhirin Pillay, who most recently delivered full-stack solutions on an enterprise network-management platform serving carriers including Bell Canada and Vodafone, after four years engineering high-throughput payment gateways and real-time transaction switching. He holds a BEng in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from Stellenbosch University.

Today we're a small team of engineers and partners taking on contract and consulting engagements — bringing that same rigour to every system and product we deliver.

C#/.NET Java / Spring Boot Python JavaScript PostgreSQL Oracle Kafka CI/CD & DevOps Cloud

Let's work together.

Available for contract and consulting engagements. Tell us what you're building.