Bornwell Matembudze

ABOUT ME - TL;DR I'm a Senior Software Engineer located in Zimbabwe (UTC+2). I am passionate about leveraging technology to improve human livelihood and to this end I design and develop custom software solutions which help businesses become more efficient, produce and ship products faster, capture more opportunities, boost customer satisfaction and grow their profits. Want to talk?

ABOUT ME - THE WHOLE LOT

I have been in the I.T industry for the past 12 years, designing and building secure, scalable and highly performant IT infrastructures that has massively impacted millions of people from migrant communities to content creators. I did Linux System Administration for 5 years before switching to Software Development and DevOps. For the last 7 years I've done remote projects for agencies, consulted for startups, and collaborated with super talented people all over the world to create digital products for both business and consumer use.

Check out my work history for more info and I can also be found on Freelancer.com & Upwork.com where I have a growing reputation for professionalism and being able to carefully elicit, document and convert client requirements into clean, scalable and complete software with a guaranteed high ROI.

WORK HISTORY

→ ZEPZ Group (Sendwave, WorldRemit Ltd) - Senior DevOps Engineer July 2023 - Jan 2024

→ EmotionMill, Austria - Senior Backend Developer Nov 2022 - June 2023

→ Ferpection, France - Backend Developer Sept 2022 - Nov 2022 (Contract - 3 months)

→ Freelance Software Developer April 2019 - September 2022

→ Siege Software, South Africa - Software Developer Jan 2017 - Mar 2019

→ Mutare Teachers’ College, Zimbabwe - System Admin 2011 - 2016

TALKS & PODCASTS

→ Episode 239: Scaling BackEnd APIs with Bornwell Matembudze

→ Episode 137: Netlify Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) with Bornwell Matembudze

→ A noob amongst the Pros (https://youtu.be/ZE73bS77pM0)

MY SKILLS

Python

Django

Wagtail

Celery

Nginx

PostgreSQL

HTML

CSS

SASS

JavaScript

Angular 2+

GIT

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

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Projects You can see more of the 20+ projects that I have worked on at Freelancer.com and Upwork.com

Vetoboards Ecommerce Website (Django and Bootstrap 5)

For this project I was brought in to work on the backend and I was responsible for integrating Braintree payment APIs and Shippo APIs. I also did the Cart and Order Processing Backend modules.

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Fuel Tank Dashboard (Django & Angular)

This was a solo project and I did the Frontend in Angular 11 and Angular Material whilst the backend APIs were done in Django and Django Rest Framework

Youth Alive Mutare, Zimbabwe Project Management Portal

This was a solo project and I did the Frontend in Angular 7 and Angular Material whilst the backend was in Django 2.3 and Django Rest Framework

Hey there, My name is Bornwell Matembudze

12 Years in the I.T Industry