Fractional CTO · Distributed systems & AI · Nairobi, Kenya
CTO and technical leader designing and scaling distributed fintech systems across Africa for 15+ years. I've led engineering at Koa/Lotus, Choice Bank, and MFS Africa (now Onafriq) — building payments infrastructure, banking-as-a-service, and cross-border money movement.
Today I run Hiruko, where I build SaaS products and provide fractional CTO advisory to startups and fintech teams. Hands-on across architecture, cloud, DevOps, and AI.
| Product | What it is |
|---|---|
| Kazios | Modular, agentic ERP for growing teams |
| Lifing | Private, offline, AI powered app built for individual use designed to turn intention into daily action |
| AkiliQuest | Gamified learning platform with chat-style questions, stories, leaderboards, streaks, and group trivias. |
LLM integration & AI-assisted engineering. I build AI into products to extend capability, and into team workflows to lift engineering velocity — from customer-facing AI tools at Choice Bank to AI-native development practices across my teams.
| Area | Tools |
|---|---|
| Languages | Python · TypeScript · Java · SQL |
| Backend | Django · FastAPI · Microservices · Event/Domain-driven design |
| Cloud & Infra | AWS (EKS, IAM, VPC, SNS/SQS, CloudWatch) · GCP · Docker · Kubernetes |
| Messaging | Kafka · RabbitMQ · Event-driven architecture |
| DevOps | GitOps (ArgoCD) · Vault · Infrastructure as Code · CI/CD |
| AI | LLM integration · AI-assisted development workflows |
15+ years across fintech and civic tech — applying the same principle everywhere: strong technical foundations create business leverage.