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Tinashe Makaza

@tinashemakaza

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Experienced full-stack software engineer specializing in fintech, cloud, and mobile solutions.

Zimbabwe

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior engineering roles where I can build scalable fintech systems, lead cloud migrations, mentor teams, and deliver end-to-end mobile and web solutions in a collaborative, outcome-focused culture.

I am a seasoned software developer with over nine years of experience in the Fintech industry, delivering back-end, front-end and mobile solutions. I specialize in Java, Spring Boot, Android (Java/Kotlin), and a wide web and cloud technology stack.

I have delivered high-impact projects for banks, credit services and fintech firms, including rewriting legacy monoliths into Spring Boot microservices deployed on AWS to dramatically increase throughput and scalability.

My achievements include building credit vetting and scoring services that reduced manual credit checks from days to minutes, constructing CI/CD pipelines to accelerate releases, and implementing ELK and containerization strategies to modernize platforms.

I am pragmatic, customer-focused and experienced mentoring engineers, driving architecture and implementation across mobile, web and cloud environments to meet business goals.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior Full-stack Engineer

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Yoyo Group

Developed React and React Native frontends and Spring Boot and Android backends for loyalty and payments products, implemented ELK, Dockerization, and AWS infrastructure to improve observability and deployment automation.

React React Native Spring Boot Android Docker ELK AWS Jenkins Next.js

Mobile Application Developer

Astro Mobile

Jun 2013 - Jan 2016 (2 years 7 months)

Built native Android apps and hybrid mobile solutions including MobiStore, sales-rep offline-sync app and a fuel coupon authentication system handling high-volume coupon validations.

Android Hybrid REST APIs Retrofit JavaScript PHP

Senior Software Engineer

Equals Solutions

Feb 2018 - Present (7 years 11 months)

Rewrote a legacy retail and credit monolith into Spring Boot microservices on AWS, increasing throughput from 1 to 50 TPS and scaling accounts and loan book while automating credit vetting to cut processing time from days to minutes.

Java Spring Boot Microservices AWS PostgreSQL CI CD RabbitMQ Redis Docker

Java Enterprise Developer

Escrow Group

Designed and developed the GEM portal, FINSEC website, Ctrade trading platform and meeting management systems, delivering web and mobile integrations for financial services.

Java EE JSF JPA Hibernate AngularJS Android PostgreSQL Apache

Senior Software Engineer

Sovtech

Contributed as senior full-stack developer across projects including React, Angular, Spring Boot microservices, .NET backends and mobile apps (Android, Flutter, Xamarin), delivering cross-platform products and integrations.