Tonderai Saidi
Backend engineer working on high-availability event-driven architectures, RESTful APIs, and distributed systems in financial services — and writing about the parts that are harder than the code.
Currently
Software Engineer, Capitec Bank — Cape Town
Core stack
Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, RabbitMQ, event-driven architecture
Work
Over four years across banking, payments, and racing platforms. Experience, technical skills, education, and a downloadable CV.
View the portfolio →Writing
10 essays on engineering craft, AI and the review bottleneck, language, and the human side of building software.
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