Bakani Pilime
Senior Software Engineer at Royal Voluntary Service
Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
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Top SchoolBakani Pilime is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building backend systems in Node.js and TypeScript, currently leading engineering efforts at Royal Voluntary Service. He has a strong startup and product background—founding Frello in 2015 and previously serving as Acting Group Head of Tech at Baobab Circle where he delivered a remote patient monitoring CareGiver module. Bakani has hands-on experience designing scalable, multi-tenant services and infrastructure, including systems that power high-growth retail clients in Zimbabwe. He combines technical leadership with day-to-day coding, having shipped microservices, CI/CD pipelines, and full-stack integrations across projects for organizations like Golix, World Bank/EcoFarmer, and Fresh In A Box. Based in Harare and originally from Bulawayo, he pairs an entrepreneurial mindset with a curiosity for niche music genres and continuous learning. His practical focus on solving “everyday solvable” problems makes him effective at turning product goals into reliable, production-grade software.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) (Hons), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) (Hons), Computer Science at National University of Science and Technology (ZW)Bachelor of Science - BS (Hons), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS (Hons), Computer Science at National University of Science and Technology
ndebele, south, English
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Github Skills (43)
react-router8
recoiljs8
medicine8
webpush8
payment-integration7
payment-gateway7
payment7
api7
hateoas7
hero7
health7
nest6
csharp6
rest6
sdk-nodejs6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bzmp125/kwikar-cli
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:8 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
bzmp125/messaging-service
Aug 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:60 commits, 37 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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