Munyaradzi Lloyd M.

FORWARD DEPLOYED ENGINEER for founders shipping AI products across mobile, web, and hardware. Top Rated Plus. 100% Job Success. $100K+ earned. 7,400+ hours on Upwork. Based in Harare, working with clients worldwide.

I sit on your side of the table. My job is to take an ambiguous product idea, a half built prototype, or a "we tried Lovable / Bolt / Cursor and got stuck" repo, and turn it into a shipped product running in production. I do this by working with AI coding agents (Claude Code is my daily driver) and by building custom AI agents that automate the parts of your business that should not need a human.

WHAT A FORWARD DEPLOYED ENGAGEMENT LOOKS LIKE

I embed directly with you. I read your code, talk to your customers if needed, and ship features end to end. Spec, build, test, deploy, monitor. You get a working product, not a Jira board full of tickets. Most weeks I deliver shipped features by Friday, demoed on a Loom, with a PR you can actually read.

I work across three surfaces:

1. MOBILE. React Native and Expo are my home. I architect new apps, rescue half built ones, and get them through Apple and Google review. I have shipped paywalls (StoreKit, RevenueCat, Google Play Billing), Stripe Connect marketplaces, OAuth integrations (Gmail, Google Calendar, Apple Sign In), push notifications and call alert flows (FCM high priority, APNs, PushKit + CallKit), WebRTC and LiveKit rooms, and Supabase backed real time apps. If you have a "vibe coded" MVP that will not pass App Store review, that is the work I do most.

2. WEB. Next.js (App Router), TypeScript, Tailwind, shadcn, Vercel. I build admin dashboards, customer portals, and SaaS control panels that sit on top of mobile and hardware products. Supabase (PostgreSQL, Auth, RLS, Edge Functions, Realtime, Storage) is my preferred backend. I also build the public marketing site when you need it.

3. HARDWARE. I build the cloud and mobile layer for IoT and connected products. BLE pairing, device-to-cloud telemetry, Supabase / Firebase ingest pipelines, mobile companion apps for ESP32 and Raspberry Pi devices, and admin dashboards to monitor fleet health. I work alongside firmware engineers, not in place of them, and I make sure the device, the app, and the cloud all speak the same language.

WORKING WITH AND BUILDING AI AGENTS

Two distinct things and I do both:

WORKING WITH AI AGENTS. Claude Code is my daily tool. I architect repositories so AI agents can navigate them cleanly: strict TypeScript, modular layout, CLAUDE.md context maps, sub agent orchestration, and MCP server integrations where it makes sense. The result is features shipped in days, codebases that stay reviewable, and AI generated code that does not need to be thrown out in six months.