Mutare, Zimbabwe

+263 (0) 719 152 027

ttchemvura@gmail.com

tino1b2be.com

tino1b2be.com/linkedin

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Tinotenda Chemvura ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING

Work Experience

My work included research on Swift Object Storage and adding features to their

MC2 Control Panel that uses Mesos Marathon REST API.

SRE Intern Praekelt.Org | 12/2016 - 02/2017

I worked on their back-end systems to implement new features that used

technologies I’d not used before (RabbitMQ, Docker, Google Protobuf, CircleCI)

Back-End Developer Intern Electrum Payments | 06/2016 - 07/2016

I worked on a project to design and implement a DTMF decoder. Prototyping was

done in MatLab and the decoder was implemented using Java. More details can be

found at tino1b2be.com/dtmf-decoder/

DSP Engineering Intern VASTech | 12/2015 - 01/2016

I joined the Mathematics department where I was assigned tasks that involved

mathematical and statistical modelling.

Software Engineering Intern Derivco | 06/2015 - 07/2015

I tutored first and second year Computer Science Courses.

Computer Science Tutor Department of Computer Science, University of Cape Town | 02/2015 - 11/2016

Leadership & Involvement

I was an orientation leader for Semester Study Abroad students and first year

Engineering students in my second and third years of study at UCT.

Orientation Leader

University of Cape Town | 01/2015 - 03/2016

I was elected by residents to be part of the House Committee (IT Representative)

where my duties were to attend to IT related problems faced by students and also

carry out a project to install a computer lab for the residence.

House Committee Glendower Residence, University of Cape Town | 08/2014 - 09/2015

• Zimbabwean

• Fluent in English, Shona

• Good leadership skills

• Fertile mind

• Photography | Videography

• Mentor

• Blogger

• Software Engineering

• Back-End Web-Development

• Cloud Computing

• Computer Engineering

• Electrical Engineering

• Electronics Engineering

• Hardware Programming

• Embedded Engineering

• Digital Signal Processing

• Image processing

• Algorithm Design

Areas of Interest

I was on an attachment programme with ZETDC, Jotali Mutare office, in their

Network Development Department. I worked with the Senior Planning Engineer

where my duties were to aid with the planning and design of projects.

(Distribution) Network Development Attachment ZETDC | 01/2018—02/2018

I am an associate member of ICITP professional body.

Associate Member ICITP | 01/2018

Education

Completed with a First Class Honours. My academic transcript can be viewed at

tino1b2be.com/academic-record.

BSc. Eng. (Hons) Electrical and Computer Engineering (1st Class) University of Cape Town (South Africa) | 02/2014 - 12/2018

I completed my IGCSE with 7A*‘s and 3A‘s and also did my Cambridge ‘A‘ Levels

(Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics) and obtained 2A*‘s and 1A.

IGCSE and Cambridge ‘AS‘ & ‘A‘ Levels Hillcrest College (Zimbabwe) | 01/2008 - 11/2013

Awards

Deans Merit List 2014, 2015, 2016 University of Cape Town

Academic Excellence 2014, 2015, 2016 Glendower Residence, UCT

Best CIE ‘A‘ Level Results in 2013 2014 Hillcrest College, ZW

Highest Average in School 2013 Hillcrest College, ZW

Best CIE IGCSE Results in 2011 2012 Hillcrest College, ZW

Patrick Rezandt

Warden at Glendower Residence

+27 (0)82 211 0154

patrick.rezandt@uct.ac.za

Jeremy Thurgood

SRE Engineer at Praekelt.Org

jeremy@praekelt.org

Jason Kessel

Consultant at MWR InfoSecurity

+27 (0)82 929 5713

Jason.kessel@mwrinfosecurity.com

References

• Operating Systems:

Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10

Linux (Ubuntu/BackBox/Kali)

• Technologies

Git

Django

RabbitMQ

Swift Object Storage

Google Proto-Buffers

Docker

Maven

CircleCI | TravisCI

Netflix Archaius

• Software

Adobe CC { PS, LR, Pr, In, DW }

MatLab | Octave

• Embedded Systems

STM32 (F4 Discovery)

ARM Cortex (M0, M4)

FreeRTOS

Technical Skills

Projects

ST-080 Drum Machine

This is an Embedded Systems group project that was part of EEE3074W at UCT.

We designed and built a prototype and more details about the project can be

found at tino1b2be.com/st080

Embedded Systems | 2016

Programming Languages

Java

C++

Python

C

Verilog

HTML | CSS

C#

MatLab

ASM Thumb

JavaScript

MySQL

DTMF Decoder

I did this project during my internship with VASTech. The goal was to design and

implement (in Java) a DTMF decoder that followed ITU-T Recommendations.

More at tino1b2be.com/dtmf-decoder

Digital Signal Processing | 2015

LARMAS (Language Resource Management System)

I built a distributed web application to collect and manage resources such as

speech, sign language and text corpora, for South African languages, to be used

for natural language processing. More at tino1b2be.com/larmas

B.Sc. Final Year Project | 2017