Summary
Emmanuel Mtali is a Management Information System Engineer with 8 years of hands-on experience building mobile and backend payment systems across East Africa. He has delivered high-throughput USSD and API payment integrations (including a country-wide *150*53# DStv payment system) and supported apps with millions of downloads by aggregating mobile and banking channels into resilient gateways. Equally comfortable in Kotlin/Android and Python/Django, he modernizes legacy Android apps with Jetpack Compose, Hilt and MVVM while optimizing backend performance with Redis, Docker and CI/CD. At Airtel Tanzania he combines ETL, database configuration (DB2/Oracle/Postgres/MySQL) and KPI-driven reporting to align engineering with business operations. A creative tinkerer since writing his first Java program in 2013, he also builds games and personal podcast apps, showing a blend of product focus and continuous learning. He brings deep regional payments experience and a knack for reducing latency and improving reliability in resource-constrained environments.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications, 4.0, Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications, 4.0 at Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology