Selected Work
Engineering work across identity, payments, AI, and applications. Each case study describes my contribution, the system, and its delivery stage.
Cleva: identity & compliance systems
Led identity and compliance engineering, including automated KYC, liveness verification, transaction monitoring, and onboarding.
Professional deliveryMutapa Technologies
The COVID pivot from merchant storefronts into payment infrastructure, enterprise deployment, and Mutapa Marketplace, later acquired by CBZ Holdings and rebranded as Zikimall.
Professional deliveryFlexID: digital identity across channels
CTO and later Co-Founder, building a digital identity wallet across Android, web, and WhatsApp.
Professional deliveryPoza: applications & agent authorization
Building financial applications and an authorization layer for actions proposed by AI agents, with explicit user approval.
Product and pilot developmentLalela Web Games
A Phaser-based browser platform adapting 202 GCompris educational activities across mathematics, literacy, programming, science, music, accessibility, and strategy.
Public applicationAgent Payments Protocol (AP2)
Contributor to Google's open protocol for secure AI-agent payments, including work to represent African payment methods and mobile-money flows.
Protocol contributionBantu Grammar Engine
A Python engine that represents Shona grammar as machine-readable JSON-Logic rules, combining morphological analysis with deterministic validation for AI-generated and human-written text.
Research prototypeGosper Open Location Code
An experimental offline geocoder that encodes coordinates into compact, hierarchical location codes for places without standardized street addresses or complete digital maps.
Research prototypeMutapa Wear
A distributed manufacturing and cultural-commerce network connecting Zimbabwean tailors, designers, artists, and artisans to local and global buyers.
Commerce project