Ngonidzashe Mangudya

Software Engineer with 7+ years of experience across backend, web, mobile, desktop, and internal business systems.

I build government solutions, hospitality and resort platforms, Rust tooling and systems software, and practical products that ship.

LinkedIn · Codecraft Solutions

Currently

• Building Rust systems tooling: agent orchestration, security scanning, terminal workflows, and homelab infrastructure
• Shipping Apple ecosystem products (Sipmate, Pastr) with SwiftUI
• Exploring AI agent interoperability through MCP servers and ACP bridges

About Me

I'm a software engineer based in Harare, Zimbabwe, and a B.Tech Honours Software Engineering graduate from the Harare Institute of Technology.

I co-founded Codecraft Solutions, where we build software with a bias toward clarity, speed, and practical outcomes.

My work spans the full software lifecycle: requirements gathering, system design, implementation, rollout, training, post-deployment support, and continuous improvement. I enjoy building systems that are useful in the real world, not just technically interesting on paper.

What I Work On

• Government and civic systems, including identity, document, workflow, and compliance-heavy internal platforms
• Biometric and verification-oriented systems, offline-first field tooling, and secure back-office workflows
• Hospitality, hotel, and resort software covering reservations, guest flows, travel details, and location-based processes
• Backend systems, internal tools, APIs, and product engineering
• Mobile, desktop, and web applications built to support day-to-day operations
• Rust tooling, AI-assisted workflows, automation, and infrastructure projects on the side

Experience Snapshot

• Government platforms: contributed to secure public-sector identity and document systems, including rollout support, reusable components, and stakeholder-facing delivery.
• Hospitality and resort software: worked on guest-facing and operational experiences backed by existing service platforms, covering reservations, travel details, check-in style flows, and location-based integrations.
• Local-authority systems: built ERP modules and supporting applications for GIS mapping, housing, billing, and benchmarking workflows.
• Commercial product work: delivered customer-facing mobile and web applications in areas including finance, agriculture, therapy, e-commerce, food delivery, and AI-enabled consumer apps.
• Platform and integration work: built backend services, chat systems, SMS and email gateways, and real-time integrations around existing business systems.
• Rust systems work: a large part of my current side-project and tools portfolio is in Rust, spanning CLIs, AI tooling, terminal workflows, homelab dashboards, monitoring tools, scanners, bridges, and high-performance utilities.

Selected Product Work

Some of the product work I have built or contributed to includes:

• Sipmate - mindful drink tracking app for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch, with streaks, insights, achievements, and a privacy-first experience. Also on the App Store.
• Pastr - lightweight clipboard history manager for macOS with instant search, pinned items, iCloud sync, and a strong privacy-first design. Also on Product Hunt.
• Top Farmer - expense tracking platform for web, Android, and iOS
• Bookhuru - meditation and accommodation platform
• Hekima - online therapy platform
• Tumai Mobile - bill payments and remittance app
• Fresh In A Box - e-commerce app
• Munch Zimbabwe - food delivery app
• Zivai - ChatGPT-powered mobile app
• African Folktales - interactive AI storytelling experience

Open Source And Side Projects

Rust Systems And Tooling

• dare - multi-agent orchestration for OpenClaw and Claude-style agent workflows
• memorai - local-first AI memory system with semantic search
• nexus - homelab dashboard built with Rust, Actix Web, HTMX, and Tailwind
• bitbucket-cli - command-line tooling for Bitbucket workflows
• heimdall - agentic, context-aware security scanner for source code repositories
• zq - AI-integrated terminal emulator
• tglogs - high-performance log inspector
• kompressor - standalone media transcoding service
• amazon_q_acp - ACP bridge for Amazon Q integration
• icsturnstile - Cloudflare Turnstile verification service built in Rust

Developer Tools

• gitwhisper - AI-powered Git commit message generator with a CLI, website, Homebrew tap, and APT packaging
• redis-watch - visual Redis instance management
• pdf-reader-mcp - MCP-based PDF reading tooling for editor workflows
• claude-agent-acp, claude-code-acp, and related ACP bridges - experiments around agent and editor interoperability

Dart And Flutter Packages

• floating_navbar - customisable floating bottom navigation for Flutter apps
• localregex - Zimbabwe-focused regex patterns for phone numbers, passports, license plates, and more
• handy_extensions - quality-of-life extensions for everyday Dart development
• pesepay - Dart package for integrating the Pesepay payment gateway
• vamboai - Dart SDK for language identification and translation with Vambo AI
• rope - immutable rope data structure in Dart for large-scale text manipulation
• wa_me - share messages, links, or files from Flutter directly to WhatsApp contacts

Swift And macOS Work

• WhatTheLoad - Swift app for checking load-shedding schedules
• Montr - Swift utility for controlling displays on macOS
• finny - Swift project currently under active exploration

There is more in the repositories list, but these are the projects that best reflect the range of what I build.

Stack

• Languages: Dart, Rust, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, PHP, Go, Swift
• Frameworks and platforms: Flutter, SwiftUI, Django, FastAPI, Node.js, React, Vue, Laravel, Actix Web, HTMX, Tailwind
• AI and tooling: Claude, OpenAI, agent orchestration, MCP servers, ACP bridges, semantic search
• Data and infra: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Firebase, Appwrite, Docker, CI/CD, automation
• Working style: product-minded engineering, strong delivery focus, and comfort across frontend, backend, mobile, internal tooling, and systems work
• Languages I speak: Shona, English, and a bit of Xhosa

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