About

Tafita Mathieu

Fullstack developer based in Madagascar. Comfortable across the stack, happiest where the backend meets the interface.

Background

I'm a software engineering student in Madagascar, learning by shipping. Most of what I know came from building projects end to end and rewriting them when they turned out wrong.

What I build

Full-stack web products, REST APIs and the occasional desktop tool. A finance tracker, a real-time video chat platform, a study assistant, and a desktop pet that lives on my Linux panel.

What I enjoy solving

Data modelling and the boundary between client and server: designing an API that makes the UI simple, and a UI that doesn't lie about what the server is doing.

How I work

Minimal effort, maximal impact. I reach for a proven library before writing my own, keep the architecture flat until it hurts, and prefer readable code over clever code.

Stack

Frontend

  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Next.js
  • Tailwind CSS
  • JavaScript
  • HTML / CSS

Backend

  • Java
  • Spring Boot
  • Node.js
  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • REST APIs

Database

  • PostgreSQL
  • JDBC
  • Prisma
  • SQL modelling

DevOps / Tools

  • Git & GitHub
  • Docker
  • Vercel
  • Netlify
  • Linux
  • JUnit

In practice

Languages across public repositories

Experience & educationSee the projects