About Thabani M. Takwena
I'm Thabani M. Takwena — Zimbabwean, based in South Africa. Software engineer, dancer, trumpet player, and the person behind SymbioLearn.
Hey, I'm Thabani
My full name is Thabani M. Takwena. I was born on 17 March 2003. I'm Zimbabwean, and I live in South Africa.
I'm a software engineer. I do client work. Outside of that I dance, I play the trumpet at church, and I build things on my laptop when the idea won't leave me alone.
A bit about how I got here
I studied Information Technology at Richfield. Uni was where I properly learnt how to teach myself — sit with something confusing, dig around, try again, until it started making sense.
I finished my degree cum laude. Richfield is also where SymbioLearn started, as my final-year project in 2023. I've kept working on it since then. It's what I spend a lot of time thinking about most days — how students relate to studying, how software could help without replacing their own thinking.
If you want the story of SymbioLearn itself — how it changed from a PDF chat thing into a voice tutoring system — that's on the About page. This page is just me.
Outside the screen
I dance. I play trumpet at church. Faith matters to me — not as branding on what I build, but as how I try to live and work. I want the things I make to be honest and useful for people, not manipulative or noisy for the sake of looking clever.
I work as a software engineer for clients. That's how I learn a lot of the hard bits of shipping real systems. On the side I've started other small projects too — some stick, some don't, and that's fine.
Find me
- thabani.dev
- GitHub @thabanidev
- Instagram @thabanidev
- X @thabanidev
- SymbioLearn: symbiolearn.com
That's me. Simple as that.