Clemence Kyara
Chief Technology Officer at Code For Africa (CfA)
Dar es-Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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Top SchoolClemence Kyara is a pragmatic CTO with 12 years of engineering and leadership experience, currently guiding Code for Africa’s distributed teams to build resilient civic tech, AI and low-cost IoT systems across the continent. He combines an engineer’s rigor—from an academic start in embedded systems and wireless mesh networking—with founder instincts honed at TriLabs, where he delivered production fintech and social-impact platforms under real-world constraints. Clemence prioritizes clear systems, ownership and operational simplicity so tools remain reliable long after original teams move on, and he invests in growing senior technical leaders and collaborative practices. He balances technical depth with a people-first approach, and is an AWS Now Go Build CTO Fellow who brings practical, evidence-driven solutions to some of the Global South’s toughest social challenges.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BEng (Hons) Electronic Engineering Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BEng (Hons) Electronic Engineering Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Pretoria
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Github Skills (200)
rest-api10
water10
mui10
api10
rest10
census-data10
sensor10
fact10
census10
java10
open-data10
hibernate10
claims10
jersey10
nextjs10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
CodeForAfrica-ARCHIVE/ActNOW
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:672 commits in 1 year 9 months
houseorganisationscivilsmscommunication
TakwimuAfrica/Takwimu
Jul 2018 - Dec 2020
Takwimu is a free and open development information service, transforming access to high quality analysis and data for African changemakers. Accessible at https://takwimu.africa/
Contributions:1 release, 746 commits, 332 PRs in 2 years 5 months
data-managementpythondataminingafricanaccessible
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