Software Engineer — Toronto, ON

Ngonidzashe

Senior Engineer · AI & Automation

Building production-grade software that automates complex business processes. Currently at McKinsey & Co — and building on the side.

$5B+
Client spend analyzed
3+
Years at McKinsey
10K+
Property listings managed
97%
Model accuracy in production
PythonTypeScriptReactFastAPIPostgreSQLAWSNext.jsAnthropic SDK
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About

Software engineer specializing in AI-enabled systems that actually ship. I care about clean architecture, measurable outcomes, and building things that last — whether inside a client engagement or as a solo founder.
LocationToronto, ON · Canada
EducationBA&Sc Physics + CS Quest University · 3.80 GPA
CurrentlyMcKinsey & Company · Senior Engineer
BuildingFairSign — contract risk scanner
RecognitionMastercard Foundation Scholar Quest University Canada President's List (×2)
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Experience

McKinsey & Company
Nov 2022 — Present
Senior Engineer I
Designing and delivering scalable AI-enabled digital and automation transformations across service operations, utilities, MedTech, procurement, and GenAI. Built an AI-powered invoice reconciliation system processing $5B+ in procurement spend, surfacing cost reduction opportunities across client portfolios.
↑ $5B+ in client spend analyzed
Squamish.RealEstate
Jan 2021 — Nov 2022
Software Developer
Built and scaled a full-stack real estate platform managing 10,000+ property listings. Owned application architecture, APIs, data models, and cloud-hosted backend services on AWS end to end.
↑ 53% faster page loads
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Projects

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B2C/B2B SaaS · Immigration
NOCURA
Canadian PR application tool that analyzes employment documents against official IRCC NOC codes. Catches documentation gaps and duty mismatches before submission — reducing refusal risk for Express Entry applicants.
Next.js 14FastAPIAnthropicStripe
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Writing

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Interests

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Tech & AI

Building intelligent systems that solve real problems. Fascinated by the intersection of large language models, system design, and production engineering — especially the gap between demos and deployments that actually scale.

LLMsSystem ArchitectureMLOpsPrompt Engineering
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Entrepreneurship

Solo founding and building products from zero to one. The craft of taking an idea, validating it with real users, and shipping something people actually pay for — while learning every part of the stack along the way.

B2B SaaSProduct DevelopmentGo-to-MarketBootstrapping
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Science

Fascinated by how the universe works at every scale. From relativity and cosmology to planetary physics, down to the chemistry of life and how organisms evolve. The intersection of fundamental physics and biological complexity.

RelativityCosmologyPlanetary PhysicsEvolutionary Biology
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Philosophy

Questions about decision-making, epistemology, and how we build mental models of the world. Drawn to pragmatism, systems thinking, and frameworks that help navigate uncertainty in both code and life.

EpistemologySystems ThinkingPragmatismDecision Theory