Issa Roufaou is a founder and seasoned engineering leader with eight years of experience building scalable, secure digital platforms tailored to African markets. As CEO of Djotta he leads development of SarkiAI—an Africa-focused multimodal AI agent with language adaptation, hybrid RAG, multi-agent orchestration and a custom MCP server architecture—alongside NFC/Qrcode smart Vcards and a merchant marketplace. His background spans mission-critical public-sector systems (civil registry, healthcare, revenue collection) where he engineered high-availability microservices, PKI/cryptography, resilient RabbitMQ clusters and comprehensive CI/CD and test suites. Comfortable from system architecture down to hands-on implementation, he combines product vision with proven delivery of fault-tolerant, auditable solutions. Notably, he brings deep expertise in cultural and language adaptation for AI—an uncommon focus that drives locally relevant intelligence and adoption across African markets.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master in Information System and Software Engineering, Computer Science, Master in Information System and Software Engineering, Computer Science at Institut Universitaire de la Côte
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