🇷🇼 Kigali, Rwanda
Director of Engineering, One Acre Fund
On a mission to restructure the tech team, modernize legacy tools, and support digital transformation and AgTech strategy
- Assembled and reorganized the team (from ~10 to ~65 engineers) introducing new roles (business analysts, project managers) and improving DEI and engagement metrics
- Led the redesign of legacy solutions to an open-source cloud-based stack (Odoo | Fineract | Keycloak | Payment Hub | ODK) for retail & mobile sales, payments and credits, CRM features, rolled out to 8 African countries (400 shops, 2M$ sales)
- Rolled out modern BI & analytics stack: Snowflake | Airbyte | Superset
- Built the DevOps function, introducing CI/CD (GitHub Actions),
moved to cloud operations (Helm | k8s, 400+ containers) with app monitoring (Elasticsearch | Prometheus | OpenTelemetry) and secure coding practices - Piloting AI&ML solutions: Ag chatbots, pest & disease identification, seed recommender (Langchain)