I'm Sam Takunda Chipangura, a Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience building production systems across payments infrastructure, mobile apps, and enterprise software for organizations in Cape Town and beyond. I’m currently at Sanlam FinTech, working on a greenfield Rust payment rails project designed to consolidate multi-billion-dollar payment processing from multiple providers into a single internal interface with the banks. I’ve led teams and delivered mission-critical systems with high-availability cloud-first architectures and optimized performance at scale. I have proven expertise in Rust, Kotlin, Python, PHP, React Native, and cloud infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes, Docker). I’m comfortable working independently and collaborating across distributed teams as an individual contributor or tech lead, with a track record of delivering complex architectural challenges and driving re-platforming efforts for fintech products.

Sam Takunda Chipangura

I'm Sam Takunda Chipangura, a Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience building production systems across payments infrastructure, mobile apps, and enterprise software for organizations in Cape Town and beyond. I’m currently at Sanlam FinTech, working on a greenfield Rust payment rails project designed to consolidate multi-billion-dollar payment processing from multiple providers into a single internal interface with the banks. I’ve led teams and delivered mission-critical systems with high-availability cloud-first architectures and optimized performance at scale. I have proven expertise in Rust, Kotlin, Python, PHP, React Native, and cloud infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes, Docker). I’m comfortable working independently and collaborating across distributed teams as an individual contributor or tech lead, with a track record of delivering complex architectural challenges and driving re-platforming efforts for fintech products.

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I’m Sam Takunda Chipangura, a Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience building production systems across payments infrastructure, mobile apps, and enterprise software for organizations in Cape Town and beyond. I’m currently at Sanlam FinTech, working on a greenfield Rust payment rails project designed to consolidate multi-billion-dollar payment processing from multiple providers into a single internal interface with the banks. I’ve led teams and delivered mission-critical systems with high-availability cloud-first architectures and optimized performance at scale.

I have proven expertise in Rust, Kotlin, Python, PHP, React Native, and cloud infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes, Docker). I’m comfortable working independently and collaborating across distributed teams as an individual contributor or tech lead, with a track record of delivering complex architectural challenges and driving re-platforming efforts for fintech products.

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Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer / Tech Lead at Sanlam FinTech
December 1, 2024 - Present
Joined Sanlam FinTech’s new greenfield project to consolidate multi-provider payments processing into an in-house Rust-based platform interfacing directly with banks; leading a small team and shaping technical direction for production-grade systems.
Tech Lead at Sanlam Switch
April 1, 2024 - April 1, 2028
Promoted to Tech Lead to head a large-scale rebrand and refactor of the platform; responsible for higher-level technical decisions and roadmap while continuing hands-on contribution to features and QA.
Senior Developer at SovTe ch (SovTech)
January 1, 2017 - September 30, 2018
Built client systems in Laravel (PHP), Node.js, and React Native for large-scale projects such as CellC’s GetMore 247; led feature development and integration work for e-commerce and health-tech platforms.
Mid-Level & Partners (Intermediate Developer) at Mid dell & Partners
October 1, 2014 - December 31, 2016
Onboarded and led a refactor program for a BBBEE auditing tool used by corporate clients and independent consultants; drove delivery of automated pipelines and customer-facing features.
Intern at Gtel
December 1, 2010 - January 31, 2013
Intern at Zimbabwe’s leading mobile brand; contributed to multiple customer and internal products, automated pipelines, and growth initiatives; progressed to lead developer and team manager responsibilities.

Education

O-Level at Marondera High School
January 1, 2005 - December 31, 2008
A-Level at Marondera High School
January 1, 2009 - December 31, 2010
BSc in Computer Science at University of Zimbabwe
January 1, 2012 - January 14, 2026
Bachelor’s at Regent Business School
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2029

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Computers & Electronics, Financial Services, Software & Internet, Professional Services, Media & Entertainment