Alongside my engineering work, I've spent the last several years building and leading technical communities across East Africa.
None of these are solo projects, and I want to be upfront about that — each card below is scoped to what I actually did, not the size of the organization behind it.
Co-founder & Community Manager
2024–ongoing
Collaborate. Innovate. Elevate: Cybersecurity community focused on training beginners through practical challenges and knowledge sharing.
Community Manager & Events Manager
2023–ongoing (deepened to Program Coordinator/Project Manager in 2025)
Innovate. Empower. Grow: A community promoting collaboration, innovation, and best practices within the DevOps industry in Nairobi and beyond, 5,000+ members across its platforms.
Community Manager & Social Media Manager
2022–ongoing
Fast-growing open-source community for tech enthusiasts, developers, and aspirants across Africa, providing resources, mentorship, and networking opportunities.
Technical Lead, Core Team
2022–2023
The Google Developer Student Clubs chapter at The Kisumu National Polytechnic, students getting hands-on with Google's tools and platforms, mostly through workshops the core team ran ourselves.
Technical Writer Lead
2023–2024
SheCodeAfrica's Nairobi chapter, part of a pan-African network supporting women in tech through mentorship and training. I led the chapter's technical writing side, the content calendar, the writing team, all of it.
Partnership and Outreach
2025-2026
A community for everyone who cares about communication, documentation, and technical writing in Kenya.
These numbers pull from everything on this site, not just one community — every talk, every role, every event that's actually documented here.
4,000+
Community members reached
Across Nairobi DevOps Community's platforms
5+
Speaking engagements
Confirmed conference talks — additional untracked appearances on Spaces/YouTube
6
Communities led or co-founded
Current and past leadership roles
4+
Years of community leadership
Since 2022, alongside the developer journey
5+
Production platforms shipped
Live, maintained sites and platforms
3+
Countries reached(approx.)
Kenya, Uganda, and community members across East Africa
Campus/compass tour initiative: ongoing community outreach program under Nairobi DevOps Community.
A few of the talks I've given over the years, spanning AI, open source sustainability, inclusive engineering culture, and privacy by design.
TEMS Africa ICT Expo 2024
The case for privacy-by-design: retrofitting privacy after launch almost always costs more than doing it upfront, so I made the argument for baking data protection into your architecture decisions from day one.
DroidCon Uganda 2023
Lessons from leading cross-functional teams across a few different community projects, on building an engineering culture that actually supports people from different backgrounds instead of just claiming to.
RenderCon Kenya 2023
Why most open source projects lose steam once the initial excitement wears off, and what's actually kept contributors around in the ones that don't: governance that doesn't get in the way, real recognition, and maintainer workloads that don't burn people out.
Africa's Talking Summit 2023
What it actually takes to build a developer community that doesn't quietly filter out beginners: onboarding, mentorship, and the small habits that decide whether a newcomer sticks around or drifts off.
DevFest Kisumu (DevFest Western Kenya) 2022
I walked through Google's Crowdsource initiative and why AI trained on narrow data ends up failing people who don't speak the 'default' language or accent, and what developers in East Africa can actually do about that.
I host #SYTTechTalk, and I've presented on it myself too, including a session on getting started and building a career in technical writing, back in July 2023.
I've also shown up on Twitter/X Spaces a few times, plus some YouTube session highlights worth a look.
My top-performing session so far has been on M-PESA Integration, where I hosted with speaker Rizwan. Watch Session
