David Kobia
Atlanta Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolDavid Kobia is a hands-on Head of Engineering with 12 years of experience building AI-native products and leading teams, currently architecting and implementing the AI core at Trustworthy. He combines production-level coding with leadership, owning RAG, agentic workflows, LLM evaluation, prompt/context engineering, and the backend and security needed for sensitive data. A serial founder and technical leader, he co-founded Ushahidi and BRCK—projects that brought open-source crisis mapping and rugged connectivity to global use. His background spans embedded connectivity, enterprise systems architecture, and research-informed practice from time as an MIT Media Lab Director’s Fellow. Based in Atlanta, he values an IC-plus-leader balance and still personally ships critical infrastructure code. Outside product work, his track record shows a focus on practical, privacy-conscious AI applied to real human problems.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Alabama at BirminghamManagement Information Systems, General, Management Information Systems, General at Strathmore UniversityMechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering at University of NairobiNairobi School
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Github Skills (200)
serverless10
skia10
cordova10
desktop10
material-design10
ionic-framework10
windows10
cordova-plugin10
ionic10
dart10
mobile10
mobile-game10
fuchsia10
phonegap10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
kidplay-tech/amazon-cognito-identity-dart-2
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Unofficial Amazon Cognito Identity Provider Dart SDK, to easily add user sign-up and sign-in to your mobile and web apps with AWS.
Contributions:4 pushes, 3 tags in 6 months
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