About Rumbidzai

Her Story

For most of her career, Rumbidzai was fluent in languages most people have never heard of: Java, Python, SQL, YAML, Bash, Ruby, Rust, and Groovy - types of languages that keep systems running, databases communicating, and entire tech infrastructures standing without relying on human intervention. She was genuinely skilled at this, building things, solving problems that had no clear solution, and being the kind of person a team could depend on.

But there was another language she had not yet mastered, and that was the language of God.

The turning point happened during one of the toughest seasons of her life, when a critical system emergency at work kept her awake for days. Then, amid everything, her mother fell ill, and everything else suddenly stopped mattering like it used to. She took a three-day road trip from Cape Town to Zimbabwe, exhausted beyond words, holding a toddler in one arm and carrying the burden of an ongoing work crisis that didn't stop for grief or distance. She sat by her mother's bedside day after day, watching the woman who had given her life on oxygen support.

After a few days of back-and-forth visits to the hospital, her mother passed away.

She buried her mother on a Sunday, and by Tuesday, she was on a flight back to Cape Town, and by Friday, she was back at her desk like nothing had happened, because life did not wait, and neither could she. Life just kept going.

The toddler still needed to be fed, bathed, and put to bed every night; work still had deadlines; and nobody around her really knew the full weight of what she was carrying. Depression crept in slowly, and then one day it was just there, heavy and constant, and anxiety came along with it, and the two of them settled in like they had no plans to leave. Slowly, the woman who had always been the one people counted on, the engineer who could troubleshoot anything and keep everything running, realized she could not troubleshoot her way out of this one.

Everything she had ever relied on was gone all at once. The mind that had never let her down before was foggy and unreliable. Work, which had always been the thing that made her feel like she was worth something, seemed too overwhelming to face. The confidence she had carried for years, just from being someone people could count on, was completely gone. And her mom, the one person she would have picked up the phone to call in a moment like this, was the very person she had just buried.

All of it, gone or out of reach, and it was in that empty space with nothing left to hold onto that God finally had her full attention. Not as a Sunday ritual or a distant background comfort she reached for out of habit, but as the living, present, speaking God who had been patiently waiting for the noise of a full and busy life to quiet down enough for her to hear Him truly.

She started reading the Bible differently in that season, not out of routine or obligation, but because she genuinely needed to find something real to hold on to and had run out of everything else to try. And as she read, she began to realize that God had actually been present through all of it, in those hospital corridors, on that long road trip with a toddler and a breaking heart, in every sleepless night after the funeral, through all of it, she just had not been still enough to notice. She could not see Him then because she had too much she was holding onto. It was only when all of that was gone that she finally looked up.

Then she found herself meditating on Romans 5:3-5, realizing that we are to rejoice in our tribulations because tribulation produces perseverance, and perseverance produces character, and character produces hope. She understood that this hope does not disappoint because God pours out His love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit.

She had read those words before in other seasons, but this time they resonated differently because she was not reading about suffering from a comfortable distance, but living through it. She also found James telling her to count it all joy when she falls into various trials, knowing that the testing of her faith is producing something in her that could not have been created any other way and could not have been rushed, shortcut, or achieved more easily.

Over time, she began to see that just as God led Israel into the wilderness not to break her but to test and refine her, and to bring her out on the other side stripped of self-reliance to full dependence on God, and just as He caused Israel to hunger in the wilderness so He might provide them with manna, He was doing the same in her own life, shaping her patiently and unhurriedly into someone He could truly trust with what He had entrusted to her. She was becoming a vessel prepared through the season.

She started writing books during that season, and in many ways, writing has been part of how God has guided her throughout the season. She is still going through that process, still being shaped, and still learning what it means to live from the inside out, as God designed. So far, two books have emerged from that journey.

Why She Writes

The more Rumbidzai grew in her faith, the more she found herself wanting to share what she was learning with the people around her, the ones sitting at desks in tech companies trying to figure out how their faith and their daily work actually fit together in a way that felt real on a normal working day.

Not just in a theoretical way but in the real daily experience of attending a Monday morning meeting, pushing through a tough deadline, having a difficult conversation with a manager, or trying to understand a burnout that no career advice could really address.

As she kept learning, she kept discovering things worth sharing, and eventually, that desire to pass on what God was teaching her became the reason she started writing.