RT Regis Tembachako
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Senior full-stack engineer · Cape Town, ZA · 8 years

Fourteen verticals.
One codebase.
One engineer.

I'm Regis Tembachako. I build high-performance web and mobile systems across e-commerce, government and broadcast media — and I architected, built and still maintain Easy Apply, a 14-vertical super-app platform, solo, from Symfony backend to Flutter apps on three stores.

PHP 8.xSymfony 7Laravel Magento 2 / Adobe CommerceFlutter REST & GraphQLAWS & Google Cloud AI / LLMs
Cape Town, South Africa Open to relocation — UK Skilled Worker, AU 482, NZ AEWV Remote and contract welcome
tembachakoregis@gmail.com +27 61 054 9027 GitHub LinkedIn
8+
Years
shipping
7
Adobe Commerce
certifications
14
Platform verticals
live
3
App stores
published

The work · Easy Apply

One Symfony backend, fourteen businesses

Every vertical is its own brand, storefront and mobile app. Underneath, they all draw on the same wallet, payment rail, identity check and admin back office. Pick one to see what it does and which shared services it leans on.

Shared core — written once, used by all fourteen

How it holds together

Multi-country, multi-currency, one wallet

South Africa and Zimbabwe, with country-code TLDs per market. A single wallet and ledger settles across verticals, with split payments, invoicing and refunds. Real-time messaging runs on Mercure; identity and KYC on Smile Identity and e-signatures on Dropbox Sign.

Summary

Who I am on a team

Senior software developer with eight years building high-performance, scalable web and mobile applications across e-commerce, government and broadcast media. Deep expertise in PHP 8.x and Symfony backend architecture, custom Magento module development, REST and GraphQL integration, and Flutter mobile development.

I hold seven Adobe Commerce certifications, three of them Adobe Certified Expert. Day to day I design clean, maintainable architecture, mentor developers, lead code reviews, and turn vague business requirements into well-tested systems that other people can pick up and extend.

Certifications

3 expert · 4 professional

Stack

What runs Easy Apply and my wider work
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AI in my workflow

Force multiplier, not autopilot

Shipping a 14-vertical platform on my own is only possible because I lean on AI heavily and deliberately. I pair with agentic coding tools daily, build AI features into the products I ship, and automate the busywork that used to eat hours.

How I build

AI-assisted engineering

  • Claude Code and Claude in the IDE for agentic, multi-file changes, refactors and migrations
  • GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT for scaffolding, test generation and rubber-ducking
  • AI-driven code review, debugging and documentation to hold quality at speed
What I ship

AI features in production

  • Anthropic Claude for content generation and personalised marketing outreach
  • Google Gemini with Cloud Vision and Safe Browsing for automated content moderation
  • Auto-learning ranking and recommendation signals feeding the diner and menu experience
How I keep it safe

Prompt and agent engineering

  • Structured prompting, tool and function calling, JSON-schema outputs
  • Multi-agent workflows with cost, model selection and token-budget awareness
  • Guardrails, moderation thresholds and daily caps for predictable spend
What it buys me

Where the time goes

  • Faster feature delivery and less boilerplate across services
  • Automated docs, migration authoring and release runbooks
  • AI-augmented QA — edge-case hunting and adversarial self-review before merge

Education

BSc Honours in Information Technology

Software Engineering · Chinhoyi University of Technology, Zimbabwe

Honours degree

Available now

Looking for someone who can hold a whole platform in their head?

I'm open to senior and lead roles — remote, contract, or on-site with relocation. Tell me what you're building and I'll tell you honestly whether I'm the right fit.