Nairobi · Building in Africa
Founder, engineer, and product builder working on systems, infrastructure, and ideas that matter. I'm interested in technology, institutions, entrepreneurship, and the discipline of building with depth.
Founder at Boya
Financial infrastructure for African businesses.
Building financial workflows, payments, cards, controls, and operating infrastructure for businesses across Africa.
Field notes: Distributed Returns on Substack — a candid look at the lessons, systems, decisions and realities behind building Boya.
A better information and feedback layer between schools and parents.
An education platform designed to help schools manage information more effectively and keep parents meaningfully connected to their children's school experience.
DevOps · Systems Design · Platform Engineering · Reliability
I work with developing engineers through practical, production-oriented training built around systems thinking, ownership, failure, and real engineering constraints.
Rather than polished testimonials, I keep the feedback close to the source. 2025 / 2026 engineering cohorts.
Places I've taught
Most of the economy around me does not fit the models. What it takes to build for it honestly.
Read →Owning a system is a moral position as much as a technical one. Notes on what that ownership asks of you.
Read →Infrastructure earns trust slowly and loses it instantly. Designing products on top of that asymmetry.
Read →On wanting to build something consequential without turning the wanting into a public act.
Read →Constraints are not a story. A working account of what the context actually changes.
Read →Between the idea and the outcome there is a long, unglamorous middle. That is where the work is.
Read →Necessity is a better brief than opportunity. Start from the gap, not the market.
Narrative should trail evidence. If it leads, something is missing behind it.
Understanding a system fully is slower and almost always worth it.
Ideas earn their keep when they survive contact with an operating reality.
Scale is a consequence. Conviction is the thing you can actually hold on to.
Fewer things, done to a standard you would defend in private.
Founder · Building corporate finance infrastructure.
Engineering lead · Ledgers, reconciliation, card issuing rails.
Built and shipped internal platforms used across operations teams.
Ongoing work with engineers moving into ownership and depth.
Essays, notes and prototypes kept as a continuous record.
I'm open to thoughtful conversations around building, systems, partnerships, mentoring, and ideas.
