Mufaro Kaseke
Cloud & DevOps Engineer
Building reliable AWS infrastructure and AI-powered products from Zimbabwe. I design, deploy, and operate production cloud environments — and I build the products that run on them.
- Cloud & DevOps @ STC
- Co-Founder, Omorfo Tech Labs
- Builder of PolarisAI
Selected Projects
A few things I've designed, shipped, and operated.
PolarisAI
AI / DataA real-time data-interaction platform that lets organizations query and explore their data in plain language. I built the query layer that maps natural language to database queries and contextual (RAG) retrieval across multiple sources, plus data pipelines for structured and unstructured data — with security and tenant isolation throughout.
- RAG
- Vector DBs
- Python
- Docker
- AWS EC2
- KMS
Zunde
FintechA community-savings (Mukando) fintech app that digitizes traditional group-savings circles. I led the team as Team Lead at the ZITF 2025 ZB Hackathon, owning the technical direction and build.
- Mukando / Group Savings
- Mobile
Eventmap
ProductA location-based event discovery platform, evolving concepts from BitesMap into a more scalable, extensible system. I focused on backend architecture and DevOps — deployment pipelines, infrastructure, and reliability — while collaborating with other developers on production-ready practices.
- Next.js
- Express
- Supabase
- AWS
- GitHub Actions
Omorfo Tech Labs
Co-FounderCo-founded in 2021. I built and maintain the company platform and client sites, manage cloud hosting and server configuration, run CI/CD with automated backups, set up mail/SMTP and Google Workspace for clients, and mentor high-schoolers learning to code.
- PHP
- MySQL
- AWS EC2
- cPanel
- DirectAdmin
- WordPress
Experience
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2026
Earned the AWS Certified Developer – Associate.
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2025
Joined Standard Telephones & Cables (STC) as an AWS Cloud & DevOps Engineer — operating production AWS (EC2, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM) and CI/CD for live environments across AFC Bank, CBZ Bank, TV Sales and Innscor Group. Earned AWS Solutions Architect – Associate and AWS Cloud Practitioner. Texpo25 2nd Runner-Up (Team CtrlAltWin), 2nd at the Google Campus Creator Challenge, and Team Lead for Zunde at the ZITF ZB Hackathon. Became Technical Coordinator at GDG NUST and joined the AWS Student Builder Core Team.
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2024
Earned Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) and ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity. Joined the ISC2 Zimbabwe Founding Chapter.
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2023
Started a BSc in Computer Science at NUST (2023–2027).
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2021
Co-founded Omorfo Tech Labs, building client websites, cloud hosting and internal tools.
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2019–2023
Freelance web development and a member of the Meta Developer Circle Harare.
What I'm Building Now
Currently building
- PolarisAI — instant business intelligence
- Zunde — community savings & fintech
- Eventmap — location-based event discovery
Exploring
- AI agents
- Cloud architecture
- Distributed systems
- Infrastructure automation
Skills
Cloud
- AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda)
- VPC & IAM
- Route 53 & SSM
- Cognito
- Azure
DevOps & Infrastructure
- Terraform
- GitHub Actions
- AWS CodeDeploy
- Jenkins
- Docker
- Linux / Ubuntu Server
- Nginx & Apache
- cPanel / aaPanel / Plesk / DirectAdmin
Backend
- Python
- Node / Express
- PHP
- MySQL / SQLite
- Supabase
- RAG & Vector DBs
Frontend
- JavaScript
- Next.js
- Bootstrap
- WordPress
Certifications
Recognition & Community
- Texpo25 — 2nd Runner-Up (Team CtrlAltWin)
- Google Campus Creator Challenge 2025 — 2nd place
- ZITF 2025 ZB Hackathon — Team Lead, Zunde App
- Technical Coordinator — Google Developer Group (GDG) NUST
- AWS Student Builder — Core Team
- ISC2 Zimbabwe — Founding Chapter member
- Member — AWS User Group Harare & GDG Harare
- Backend Developer — Oxford-funded Smart Irrigation System
- Volunteer Backend Developer — NUST Innovation Hub
- Ex-member — Meta Developer Circle Harare (2019–2023)
About
I started building websites in high school and freelancing for clients, then co-founded Omorfo Tech Labs in 2021 to do it at scale — full-stack builds, cloud hosting, and server administration. I'm now studying Computer Science at NUST while working as a Cloud & DevOps Engineer at STC, where I run production AWS environments for banks and enterprises.
Today I focus on building reliable infrastructure and products that solve real problems in Zimbabwe and across Africa — from AI-powered analytics with PolarisAI to fintech with Zunde. I care a lot about Linux, automation, and systems that just keep running. (And cats. Always cats.)
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