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Ngoni Mujuru

Software Development Manager & Technical Lead

Building scalable software and high-performing engineering teams for 10+ years. From startup founder to engineering leader: I bridge deep technical craft with business impact.

Ngoni Mujuru — Software Development Manager and Technical Lead
10+ Years
YC Startup
Certified
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About Me

The Story Behind the Code

IT Professional with a demonstrated history of developing robust, highly scalable web and mobile applications across diverse industries.

Entrepreneurial and dependable with a Bachelors and Honours degree in Computer Science from the University of Pretoria, graduated with distinction. I've led engineering teams at companies ranging from data analytics platforms to fintech super-apps.

Outside of work, I'm an avid reader and thought leader in the tech space, sharing insights with a growing community of 4000+ LinkedIn followers. I believe great software is built by great teams, and great teams are built intentionally.

Core Strengths

  • Team Leadership

    Building, mentoring and scaling high-performing engineering teams

  • System Architecture

    Core platform architectural planning across multiple product lines

  • Product Delivery

    End-to-end ownership from scoping to production deployment

  • Entrepreneurship

    Founded a startup, won awards, and interviewed by YCombinator

Technical Toolkit

Skills & Technologies

Frameworks

Angular Vue.js React Flutter

Languages

JavaScript TypeScript Python Dart PHP Java .NET C#

Databases

Firebase MySQL MsSQL PostgreSQL

Tools & DevOps

Git Jenkins Cypress Puppeteer Selenium Mocha / Chai GitLab CI/CD GitHub Actions AWS

Professional Certifications

AWS Cloud Practitioner 2021
Alipay L1 Frontend Engineer 2020
Career Journey

Work Experience

Rapidev Labs

Software Development Manager
Apr 2025 — Present
  • Project scoping and client communications
  • Core platform architectural planning across multiple projects
  • Team management, performance reviews and hiring

Zenysis

Technical Team Lead
Jan 2024 — Apr 2025
  • Core platform architectural planning
  • Platform features and improvements implementation
  • ETL data pipeline maintenance and improvements
  • Team management, performance reviews and hiring

Pargo Points

Senior Software Engineer
Jun 2022 — Dec 2023
  • Ownership of organisation's 4 main frontend apps
  • Determined frontend framework strategy for app consistency
  • Established better ways of work for the engineering team
  • Introduced and trained development team on Flutter; prototyped mobile apps
  • Interviewing, training and supervision of new team members

BBD Software Development

Technical Lead
Aug 2020 — May 2022
  • Technical lead and trainer for development teams at Makro, Edgars, Clicks and KFC on Vodapay
  • Created Vodapay app frontend using Vue.js; feature owner for bank card management & FAQ
  • Interviewing, training and supervision of new team members
  • Coordination with external designers and QA team to ensure quality delivery

Medical RCS

Software Engineer
Feb 2020 — Aug 2020
  • Built and led team to design and develop a medical practice management system
  • Angular + TypeScript frontend, Firebase DB, Node.js/Express backend hosted on AWS Elastic Beanstalk
  • Migrated e2e testing framework from Protractor to Cypress

Letterbox

Founder & Software Engineer
Feb 2016 — Aug 2020
  • Founded startup and led team to build a CRM system using Bootstrap, jQuery, HTML/CSS on serverless Firebase
  • Built separate native iOS and Android apps for the platform
  • Won Best Tech Startup at University of Pretoria 2018
  • Interviewed by YCombinator CEO Michael Siebel in 2019
Best Tech Startup — University of Pretoria 2018 · YCombinator Interview 2019

F-Secure

Software Engineering Intern
Nov 2019 — Dec 2019
  • Built a Windows service for logging errors using C# and Microsoft system libraries
Academic Background

Education

2019
University of Pretoria

Honours in Computer Science

  • Assistant Lecturer for first-year Computer Science modules
  • Student entrepreneur representative (EDHE)
2018
University of Pretoria

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

  • Graduated with distinction
  • University Tutor for Computer Science modules
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