01 / Origin
From self-taught systems work to real operations
I did not come into software through a classroom first. My brother Victor was the first person who showed me software could be leverage and something you could build a life around.
I went through NorthGate Schools, taught myself systems work, and entered through IT and ERP administration. That background still shapes how I work: I do not treat systems as abstract tools; I look for how they behave inside a real business.
02 / Experience
Software engineering and real operations
For more than five years, I built systems as a software engineer, and I loved every day of it. Writing code, shaping UX, and designing systems for companies such as CoBenefit and Africa's Talking were the highlight of my college days and early career.
At Crown Paints Kenya, I worked as an ICT/ERP administrator and later took direct responsibility for remotely running operations at Tintas Berger, the company's Mozambique subsidiary.
For roughly one and a half years, I worked across manufacturing, procurement, HR, sales, inventory, and reporting. That experience made the gap obvious: many businesses have software, but the software does not reflect reality well enough for owners to trust the numbers.
03 / Building Nuvana
A conviction that became a company
Nuvana began as a conviction before it became a company: small and mid-sized businesses in Kenya struggle with the same fragmented tools, manual reconciliation, and missing single source of truth that larger companies also fight.
The ambition is to make advanced technology practical for organisations in Kenya. Nuvana Business is one expression of that ambition: a product developed around the daily operating realities of SMEs.
My work has saved SMEs millions through restructuring business operations, business visibility, and money movement. The company I am building carries that work forward.
04 / Founder lesson 01
Africarelink — USSD healthcare traceability
Built to solve traceability for healthcare workflows across Africa, over USSD — no smartphone or data connection required.
Lesson: the problem was real and the usage was heavy where it existed. The gap was distribution beyond a small pilot, not product-market fit.
- 4 monthly active users
- 2,000+ USSD sessions — roughly 500 sessions per active user
05 / Founder lesson 02
Gymflow254 — gym management for Kenyan gyms
A management system for gym owners to run memberships, scheduling, and operations.
Lesson: the clearest one of the three — validate willingness-to-pay before you build the system, not after. This now shapes how I scope every Nuvana engagement: proof of demand comes before the build.
- Generated leads. Zero converted to paying signups.
06 / Founder lesson 03
Eveenti — events for communities
A platform for communities to organize and run their own events.
Lesson: community-dependent products need a champion embedded inside the community — a good tool isn't enough on its own.
- 3 events ever created on the platform.
07 / Direction
The organisation and its technology
What matters to me is the relationship between an organisation and its technology: how work moves, how money moves, and what leadership can see clearly enough to act on.
Nuvana HQ is where I am developing that perspective into a company, through software, operational restructuring, and systems that reflect the realities of the organisations using them.