Tatenda Zifudzi
Software Development Engineer - Internet Edge Services at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolTatenda Zifudzi is a software development engineer with nine years of experience building Java-based backend systems and distributed services across telecom, banking, and cloud platforms. Currently on AWS Internet Edge Services after contributing to EKS Windows container support, he focuses on optimizing global internet traffic and zero-latency systems. Certified in Java, Spring, Kafka, and AWS, he combines hands-on engineering with an academic rigor—currently pursuing an MS in Computer Science at Georgia Tech with a 4.0 GPA. Tatenda has delivered large-scale infrastructure for multi-country insurance rollout and core banking features supporting the majority of Zimbabwean banks, showing a strong track record in high-stakes, production environments. Based in Vancouver, he’s passionate about SRE and distributed systems and brings a practical blend of telecom and cloud-native expertise that helps bridge legacy financial platforms to resilient, cloud-scale architectures.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (Honours), Computer Science, 1st Class, Bachelor of Science (Honours), Computer Science, 1st Class at Midlands State UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, 4.0, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 4.0 at Georgia Institute of Technology
English, Bantu, Zulu
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (99)
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wmi10
windows10
exporter10
prometheus-exporter10
scheduling10
k8s10
mesos10
ipv410
payment10
autoscaling10
kubernetes10
go10
prometheus10
android10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
paynow/Paynow-Java-SDK
Nov 2018 - Jul 2021
Java SDK for Zimbabwe's leading payments gateway, Paynow
Contributions:24 commits, 6 PRs, 21 pushes in 2 years 7 months
paymentspayment-gatewaysdkgatewayadyen
tzifudzi/karpenter
Jun 2023 - Nov 2023
Karpenter is a Kubernetes Node Autoscaler built for flexibility, performance, and simplicity.
Contributions:37 pushes, 7 branches in 5 months
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