BURAN · буран EST. 2020 · ZA

We build the systems your business runs on.

Buran Technologies is a South African software studio. We design, build, and run production-grade platforms, integrations, and automation — the kind of systems that quietly keep operations moving.

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STUDIO AT A GLANCE
STUDIOindependent · founder-led
LOCATIONSouth Africa · remote
ESTABLISHED2020
PLATFORMS19 in portfolio
SPECIALISMSautomotive · finance · property
§ 02 SELECTED WORK

Real systems, in production.

Workshop operations, vehicle rental and finance, accounting, distribution and property management. Each system brings day-to-day workflows, customer services and integrations together around the business it serves.

/01 AUTOMOTIVE · SAAS

Workshop operating system

A workshop operating system covering estimates, job cards, invoicing and payments, with stock by warehouse location, bookings, staff, health and safety, and WhatsApp customer messaging. Delivered across five systems: the core platform, technician mobile app, media service, vehicle intelligence service and public site.

DjangoFastAPIVue · QuasarCapacitorPostgreSQLCeleryOpenAI
SCOPE5 connected systems
COREDjango · DRF · Channels
SERVICESmedia · vehicle data
SCALE259 core models
REAL-TIMEWhatsApp · WebSockets
/02 VEHICLE MANAGEMENT · MULTI-TENANT

Vehicle rental, leasing & fleet management

A multi-tenant vehicle platform with stock, valuations and fleet operations alongside credit applications, affordability checks, digital contracts and repayment schedules. DebiCheck and RealPay handle collections, Sage receives accounting entries, and a computer-vision service supports damage inspection and reconditioning.

DjangoPyTorchYOLO11-segSAM 2PostgreSQLCelerySage ERP
ARCHITECTUREmulti-tenant · white-label
DATA MODEL180+ entities
INTEGRATIONSSage · RealPay · DebiCheck
CV SUBSYSTEMdamage detection
SPAN2020 → present
/03 FINTECH · ACCOUNTING

Management-accounts automation

Automates month-end management accounts on top of Sage Business Cloud — extracts transactions from bank PDF statements with GPT-4o, matches transactions with a confidence-scored reconciliation engine, categorises to the right ledger account, and posts clean entries back to Sage.

DjangoGPT-4oVue · QuasarPostgreSQLSage API v2
INTEGRATIONtwo-way Sage API
EXTRACTIONGPT-4o · multi-bank PDF
ENGINEconfidence reconcile
OUTPUTTB · P&L · balance sheet
/04 MOBILITY · SAAS

White-label vehicle rental platform

An API-first vehicle-rental platform deployable as an isolated, branded instance per operator — reservations, fleet, finance and customer portals from a single codebase, with a Quasar staff console and a public Nuxt storefront.

DjangoDRFVue · QuasarNuxt 3CeleryMinIO
ARCHITECTUREAPI-first · per-tenant
MODULES15 domains
SURFACESadmin SPA + portal
OPShealth · jobs · OpenAPI
/05 MANUFACTURING · B2B

B2B distribution, pricing & CRM

A B2B sales platform for a manufacturer: supplier and customer CRM, a quantity-based pricing engine with margin safeguards, real-time chat, and an AI lead-finder that discovers and qualifies new manufacturers via Google Places and OpenAI.

DjangoChannelsOpenAIGoogle PlacesRedis
CRMcustomers · suppliers · 2FA
PRICINGqty tiers · margin guard
LEAD-GENPlaces + AI scoring
REAL-TIMEWebSocket chat
/06 PROPTECH

Property rental management

A property-rental platform covering the full tenancy lifecycle — listings, applications and KYC, contract e-signing, payments and communications — with AI-assisted listing tools, in-app chat, and reconciled Ozow payments.

DjangoVue 3TypeScriptOzowOpenAI
LIFECYCLElist → apply → sign → pay
PAYMENTSOzow · webhook · reconcile
VERIFYKYC + app scoring
AIlisting assist
MORE SYSTEMS

AI trading control plane

Derivatives trading dashboard and execution engine, with live market data and AI-assisted strategy.

FastAPI · WebSockets · Redis

Retail signage operations

Contribution to a multi-tenant signage platform with mobile workflows and repair and replacement cost forecasting.

Node · React · React Native

Travel booking & quoting

B2B travel reservations and quotes connected to an established back-office system over SOAP.

Django · zeep · SOAP

Warranty & claims administration

Dealer and customer workflows for policies, repairers, claims, refunds and invoicing.

Django · DRF · PostgreSQL

Vehicle inventory & valuation

Dealer stock management enriched with vehicle catalogue data and external valuations.

Django · Lightstone Auto API

Specialist e-commerce

Boutique storefront with individual stock records for unique specimens.

Next.js · Prisma

AI agent orchestration

A control plane for running coding agents in isolated project workspaces and coordinating their execution.

Django · Vue · Docker

AI marketing video generation

A pipeline from scripted shot lists to generated imagery, video, narration and final assembly.

ComfyUI · image-to-video · FFmpeg

Personal-information redaction

An API that removes South African ID numbers, phone numbers and card details from text PDFs.

FastAPI · PyMuPDF

Campus & learning-material orders

Earlier delivery of a shared ordering platform across sixteen branded institutional instances, with ERP and SOAP connections.

Django · ODBC · SOAP

Print & fulfilment workflows

Earlier print and design operations connecting purchase orders, accounting and courier booking and tracking.

Sage Pastel · ODBC · SOAP

Business messaging & CRM

Shared WhatsApp inboxes, message templates and customer workflows, including encrypted Flows and Groups integration.

Django · WhatsApp Business · Meta
§ 03 CAPABILITIES

From business workflow to production.

Architecture, web and mobile applications, financial systems, applied AI and production operations — delivered with an understanding of the business behind the software.

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01

Custom business platforms

Complete operating systems for workshops, fleets, property and distribution: workflow, accounting, compliance and customer portals. Multi-tenant architecture includes provisioning, feature access, billing and branded deployments.

Domain modelling · SaaS · tenant provisioning
02

Finance & payments

Sage Business Cloud, Evolution and Pastel integration, bank-statement import, reconciliation and management accounts. Payment and collection flows include DebiCheck mandates, RealPay, Ozow and PayGate.

Accounting · mandates · collections · reconciliation
03

Web, mobile & messaging

Staff consoles, customer portals and mobile apps built around dedicated APIs, push notifications and live updates. WhatsApp Business inboxes, templates and encrypted Flows connect customer conversations to operational work.

Vue · React · Capacitor · WhatsApp Business
04

AI & automation

Document extraction and classification, vehicle damage detection, generated marketing video and coding-agent orchestration. Practical pipelines combine language models, computer vision, image generation and speech.

OpenAI · PyTorch · YOLO · SAM 2 · ComfyUI
05

Legacy & enterprise integration

Connect established ERP, ordering and logistics systems through ODBC, SQL Server and IBM DB2. Build and consume SOAP services, integrate vehicle-data providers, and move data between existing business systems.

REST · SOAP · ODBC · ERP · vehicle data
06

Data & production operations

Relational schema design and migrations across years of development. Background queues, scheduled jobs, containers, reverse proxies, TLS automation, object storage, backups and restores keep the software operating.

PostgreSQL · Redis · Celery · Docker · nginx
§ 04 APPROACH · FLIGHT SEQUENCE

From brief to production, in sequence.

Every system follows the same disciplined descent. No skipped phases.

  1. 01

    Discovery

    We learn the domain before we model it. The problem drives the architecture — never the other way round.

  2. 02

    Architecture

    Data model, boundaries and integrations designed up front — where the monolith holds, and where a service earns its place.

  3. 03

    Build

    Iterative delivery in working increments. You see progress every week, not a reveal at the end.

  4. 04

    Launch

    Deploy, integrate, harden: auth, rate-limiting, backups, TLS and monitoring — the things that make it safe to depend on.

  5. 05

    Operate

    We stay on. Systems evolve — we maintain, monitor and extend them for the long haul. буран means blizzard: we build for the conditions that break lesser systems, so yours keeps running when they don't.

Illustrative software architecture sketch beside a laptop with a code editor
Thought through on paper.
Built to work in practice.
§ 05 STACK · INSTRUMENTATION

The instruments we build with.

Tools used across current platforms and earlier delivery work, from modern web and mobile applications to established enterprise systems.

BACKEND
PythonDjangoDRFFastAPICeleryChannelsWebSockets
FRONTEND
Vue 3QuasarNuxtReactTypeScriptTailwind
MOBILE
CapacitorReact Native
DATA
PostgreSQLRedisSQLAlchemySQL ServerIBM DB2
AI · ML
OpenAIPyTorchUltralyticsSAM 2vLLMComfyUIFLUXSDXL
INFRA
DockerNginxAWS · S3MinIOCloudflare R2Certbotsystemd
INTEGRATIONS
Sage Business CloudSage EvolutionSage PastelRealPayDebiCheckPayGateOzowMeta · WhatsAppTwilioGoogleDeribitLightstoneFirebaseHaynesProBulkSMSBookMaster ERPSOAPODBC
§ 06 FOUNDER

Work directly with the builder.

An independent studio with one point of contact, from the first conversation to production and ongoing support.

FOUNDER · PRINCIPAL ENGINEER

Wynand
van der Linde.

I build software around the way a business actually works.

I bring twenty years of commercial development experience, with particular depth in automotive, fleet and financial systems. I founded Buran Technologies in 2020 to design, build and operate complete business platforms.

When we work together, I’m the person learning your operation, making the technical decisions and writing the software. I stay involved as the system grows.

WHAT I TAKE CARE OF

Architecture & direction
Turn your workflows into a clear data model, practical system boundaries and an achievable delivery plan.
Engineering & integration
Build the backend, web and mobile experiences, and connect the accounting, payment and messaging systems you rely on.
Production & continuity
Deploy, maintain and extend the system, including its infrastructure, background services, backups and integrations.
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§ 07 OPEN A CHANNEL

Tell us what you're building.

Send the shape of the problem — timeline, systems involved, what "done" looks like. We reply within one working day.

EMAILinfo@buran.co.za PHONE+27 76 142 2608
BASESouth Africa · working worldwide
LET’S TALK

A few details are enough to start.

Email a short outline of what you need. These are useful starting points:

  • The problem. What would you like the software to make easier?
  • Your current systems. What does it need to work with?
  • Your timeline. When would you like to get started?
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