About me
Hi there 👋🏾, I’m Donell Mtabvuri, a software developer and product designer with 5+ years of experience building apps, websites, and digital products that blend clean design with powerful AI integrations.
From healthcare platforms and education tools to voice AI apps, I specialize in turning ideas into user-friendly, scalable solutions.
Some of my projects
Experience
Maryland, USA
Worlds of Hello
August 2024 – Present
Chief Technology Ofiicer
Designed in Figma and built a speech therapy platform in Flutter which has been granted over $300K in funding, currently in closed beta testing.
Managed a team of developers and security engineers, providing mentorship and overseeing project sprints.
Co-designed and built security policies and procedures with security engineer to achieve an initial assessment of 88% during development
Built and maintained technical business relationships with third-party providers and institutions.
Remote
Upwork Top-rated Freelancer
Jun 2024 – Present
Product Designer & Flutter Developer
Achieved a Top-Rated status, 100% Job Success Score and 5-star all-round reviews from my clients on Upwork
Designed, built and published on the App Store a student support mobile app offering mentorship programs and class scheduling for students in HBCU institutions.
Designed an electronic medical records system in Figma for an upcoming EMR solution in Zimbabwe.
Leading and designing the user experience and interface for one of Southern Africa’s smartest upcoming event ticketing platform, Groove, which serves Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Harare, Zimbabwe
Atensao Agency
May 2023 - Jun 2024
Web & I.T. Developer
Designed and developed a Performance Review application in Power Platform for one of Zimbabwe’s largest construction companies (Masimba Holdings Limited).
Designed and developed websites in Framer for a cargo-surveying company (Mashonaland Risk Management - Ranked Number 1 on Google Search).
Designed and developed a VR immersive website for a VR heritage sites company (VR Zim) and a general consultant company ( Grey Lion Solutions).
Offer managed IT services for my clients, e.g. Microsoft Entra ID management, P ower Platform development and increased productivity by at least 50 % across all clients.
Harare, Zimbabwe
Brismed Medical Solutions
May 2023 - Sept 2023
UX Designer & Kotlin Developer
Worked as an outsourced freelancer, designing in Figma and developing a design system in Kotlin for a electronic medical records (EMR) system decreasing development time by at least 20%
Designed and created animated social media content to promote the system in Jitter.
Led the development team in the last 2 months of my contract and was the presenter of the digital product in marketing videos.
Harare, Zimbabwe
Masimba Holdings Limited
Sept 2022 - May 2023
Power Platform Developer
Spearheaded design in Figma and development of business support systems in Power Platform such as complaints application, vehicle tracker and inventory system.
Automated printing employee IDs for workers at a Karo Platinum Mine using SharePoint and Microsoft Publisher.
Harare, Zimbabwe
SpecTech Systems
Oct 2022 - Dec 2022
UX Designer & Flutter Developer
Worked as a sub-contractor (freelancer) in designing and developing a Flutter MVP application for a pharmacy. The goal was to serve a larger customer base of over 20K customers by ordering provisions remotely which would in turn increase their sales and customer retention.
Education
Washington D.C, USA
2025 – Present
Master of Science in Applied Data Science & Analytics
Howard University
Currently pursuing a Masters degree in Applied Data Science & Analytics at H oward University to empower myself to provide more well-thought out data-driven applications to client organisations.
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
2020 - 2024
Bachelor of Science (Honors) in Computer Science
National University of Science and Technology
As a capstone project created an HR optimisation system in Power Platform that had leave, complaints and performance review applications funnelling data to a Power BI dashboard in Power Apps and an integration with a Copilot for generating insights to business data.
