Farai Gwenzi
Software Developer
Harare, Zimbabwe farai.gwenzi@email.co.zw +263 77 234 5678 github.com/faraig

Summary

Full-stack developer with 4 years building web apps for Zimbabwean fintech and logistics. Ships clean, tested Laravel + Vue code and cares about performance on low-bandwidth connections.

Experience

2022 – Present
Software Developer
Paynow / Webdev
  • Built payment-integration modules processing 50k+ transactions/day.
  • Cut API response times 40% with query optimisation and caching.
  • Mentored two junior developers and introduced code reviews.
2020 – 2022
Junior Developer
Twenty Third Century Systems
  • Developed internal dashboards in Laravel + Livewire.
  • Automated report generation, saving the team ~10 hours/week.

Projects

MukoshoPOS
  • Offline-first point-of-sale for informal retailers; works on 2G.

Education

2020
BSc Computer Science
University of Zimbabwe

Tech Stack

PHPLaravelVue.jsMySQLJavaScriptGitDockerREST APIs

Certifications

AWS Cloud PractitionerAWS · 2023

Languages

English — Fluent
Shona — Native

Referees

Mr. K. Chirwa
Lead Engineer, Paynow
k.chirwa@paynow.co.zw