About

I’m Tawanda.

I created Rivalspy to help me dominate my fantasy premier league mini leagues, Doorman to handle analytics for my blog, HN Digest to turn Hackernews top stories into a personalised RSS feed, and I’m currently working on nanotools, a self-hostable collection of privacy-first web utilities because free, online ones can be sketchy. Currently, I am working at Zapiet revolutionising pickup and delivery for Shopify merchants.

I work primarily with Go, PHP, Python, and TypeScript, but I’m equally comfortable with Rust and Java.

Lately, I have rediscovered an old joy: game development. I found it to be the best way to merge the two things I am passionate about - coding and storytelling. With that in mind, I have been learning GDScript and learning the ins-and-outs of game development using Godot.

I also write both fiction and non-fiction. Over years of writing code and stories, I have found that the same patterns mostly apply. I’ve had short fiction published in Literary Heist, Ab Terra, and Rush Magazine (links below).

My hobbies include watching football, PC gaming (mostly platformers), watching movies, reading sci-fi, and working out.

I’m multilingual (Shona, English, Chinese), based in Harare, Zimbabwe with my wife, and a lifelong Manchester City supporter.

Projects Showcase #

RivalSpy (live) - Fantasy Premier League analytics for tracking mini-league rivals. Built with Laravel, deployed with Kamal.

Doorman (GitHub) - Lightweight self-hosted analytics in Go (30MB RAM vs. hundreds for alternatives) with SQLite support. Also available as a Laravel package (GitHub).

tinyutils (GitHub) - A self-hostable, web-based collection of utilies for those who value privacy.

You can find more of my projects here or on my GitHub

Professional Experience #

Fullstack Developer #

Zapiet | November 2023 - Present
PHP (Laravel) | TypeScript (React) | Docker | GraphQL

Software Developer #

Chesco Tech | October 2022 - November 2023
PHP | Java (Spring) | TypeScript (React & React Native)

Writing #

Fiction published in:

Technical writing and essays live on this blog.

My reading list collects books I think everyone should read.

Contact #

For business inquiries: projects@webbe.dev