Ahmed Maawy
Technical Lead at CIO East Africa
Kenya
Summary
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Top SchoolAhmed Maawy is a seasoned technical leader with 15 years of experience building products and engineering teams across media, hardware-enabled connectivity, and consumer data platforms. He has held senior roles from CTO and VP of Engineering to Technical Lead, with a track record at organizations like BRCK, Al Jazeera/AJ+, Streamlytics and X-Team, and now leading product vision at wayn. Ahmed blends hands-on engineering, product management and solutions architecture—shipping mobile and cloud systems, microservices and IoT-enabled devices for frontier markets. He’s also a community builder and founder of a prominent Kenyan tech hub, a World Economic Forum Global Shaper and recipient of multiple innovation awards, showing an uncommon mix of regional ecosystem impact and enterprise delivery. Known for translating newsroom and offline connectivity challenges into scalable technical products, he brings practical experience in data platforms, AI-enabled media tooling and resilient systems for low-resource environments.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma in Information Technology, Information Technology, Diploma in Information Technology, Information Technology at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT)Post Graduate Ceritifcate in Social Innovation Management, Post Graduate Ceritifcate in Social Innovation Management at Amani InstituteBachelors Degree, Business Information Technology, Bachelors Degree, Business Information Technology at Limkokwing University
English, Arabic, Swahili
Github Skills (64)
godot10
game-engine10
open-source10
game-development10
defold9
heroku9
steroids9
webserver9
nginx8
docker8
buildpack8
python8
php8
lua8
docker-swarm8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Abayima/OpenSIMKit-Java
Feb 2013 - Aug 2013
Contributions:28 commits in 6 months
ylabs/TIMBY_Web
Oct 2013 - Jan 2014
Contributions:74 commits in 3 months
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