Summary
Chaddy Rungwe is a Head of Engineering with nine years of hands-on experience building cloud-native, full-stack systems and leading distributed teams across Africa. He combines deep cloud expertise from an EC2 engineering stint at Amazon with practical fintech impact—helping grow a digital insurance platform to roughly half a million customers using Java Spring, React, Python/Django and AWS. A coder at heart who still ships code daily, he’s delivered end-to-end products from microservices and DevOps pipelines to React Native mobile apps and USSD services for low‑income users. Known for pragmatic architecture and data-driven decisioning, he bridges product, analytics and engineering to scale resilient, cost-effective solutions for emerging markets.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering and Computer Science at University of Cape Town