Eddie Kago
Chief Technology Officer at Smart Shamba
Kenya
Summary
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Top SchoolEddie Kago is a technology leader and founder with 8 years of experience building distributed systems, blockchain infrastructure, and decentralized identity solutions across Africa. Currently CTO of Smart Shamba and founder of Antugrow, he designs ML-driven agricultural products and on-chain reputation systems that unlock credit for smallholder farmers. His work at the Ethereum Foundation and prior roles at Binance, Hyperledger and Gravity reflect deep expertise in verifiable credentials, decentralized identity standards, and practical on-chain integrations. He has a track record of turning research into products—from a Pan-African self-sovereign identity framework (Kweli) to an ML crop advisory engine—and balances hands-on engineering in Go and Python with strategic product leadership. Based in Kenya, Eddie blends startup grit with academic rigor (Harvard Business School and advanced systems study) and a knack for community-building, having launched vibrant developer ecosystems like Hyperledger Nairobi. An understated strength is his focus on financial inclusion tooling that maps real-world farming metadata to verifiable on-chain credit signals.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Non-Profit/Public/Organizational Management, Non-Profit/Public/Organizational Management at Arizona State UniversityAdvanced Operating Systems, Computer Science, Advanced Operating Systems, Computer Science at UdacityBSc., Business Information Technology - Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, BSc., Business Information Technology - Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Strathmore UniversityCrossroads Emerging Leaders Virtual Program, Candidate, Crossroads Emerging Leaders Virtual Program, Candidate at Harvard Business SchoolHigh School Certificate,, High School Certificate, at Mang'u High School
Kiswahili, emoji, Spanish
Github Skills (11)
verifiable6
ether5
react4
blockchain4
gatsby4
ethereum4
indy3
foundation3
nodejs3
indy-node2
portable2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
AfricanDigitalAssetFramework/kweli
Aug 2019 - Oct 2020
Registry implementing verifiable organizations for the African Continental Free Trade Agreement.
Contributions:26 commits, 2 PRs, 21 pushes in 1 year 2 months
verifiableafricanagreementtradeorganizations
scripttie/kweli-network
Aug 2019 - Dec 2019
A portable development level Indy Node network
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes in 4 months
blockchainindynodejsportablenode-network
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