Charles Sweetland
Chief Data Officer
Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolCharles Sweetland is a Chief Data Officer and founder with nine years of experience turning complex, ground-level datasets into actionable intelligence for businesses, investors, and policymakers across Kenya and Sub-Saharan Africa. At Stahili he oversees a platform ingesting 40,000+ daily survey responses to provide real-time insights on consumer behaviour, access, and wellbeing, and he has a track record of aligning product, analytics, and engineering teams around data strategy. Previously as Head of Data Analytics and Data Scientist at CrossBoundary, he built reproducible pipelines, Python Dash apps on AWS, and automated workflows that materially improved data completeness and sped tool rollouts from months to weeks. He founded Springhead Data, scaling a consulting practice to sustained profitability while hiring and mentoring multidisciplinary teams in R, Python, MATLAB and cloud tooling. He blends rigorous academic training in mathematics with hands-on engineering and data storytelling—often embedding geospatial and time-series analytics into investment-grade products. Outside core roles he advises on analytics for renewable energy projects and has published practical work influencing mini-grid and infrastructure investment decisions.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
A levels, maths, further maths, physics and chemistry, A levels, maths, further maths, physics and chemistry at The Axe Valley Community CollegeMaster of Science (MSc), Advanced Mathematics, Master of Science (MSc), Advanced Mathematics at University of Exeter
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cran/GENEAread
Jul 2018 - Nov 2020
Contributions:6 commits in 2 years 5 months
CharlesSweetland/dotfiles
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
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