Julian Kanjere
Senior Blockchain Engineer at University of Cape Town
Gauteng, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolJulian Kanjere is a Senior Blockchain Engineer and entrepreneur with eight years of experience building enterprise software and inclusive fintech solutions across Ethereum, Algorand, XRPL and Stellar. He leads blockchain R&D and cross-team implementations at South Africa’s CSIR while co-founding Mandla Money, a fintech focused on semi-offline stablecoin and CBDC payments for low-tech channels like SMS and USSD. A former enterprise developer at Allan Gray and Hexagon, he combines rigorous engineering with product and stakeholder-facing roles, and teaches FinTech and Cryptocurrencies at the University of Cape Town. Julian has secured roughly US$250K in innovation funding and was one of 20 winners of the 2021 Schmidt Futures Reimagine Challenge, reflecting his focus on technology for emerging markets. He also founded AgTech startup FoodPrint Labs, showing a pattern of using digital tools to strengthen value chains from farm to fork. Currently pursuing a PhD in Economics after an MPhil in Financial Technology, he pairs academic depth with hands-on systems delivery.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Philosophy - MPhil Financial Technology, Master of Philosophy - MPhil Financial Technology at University of Cape TownBachelor of Computer and Information Sciences Business Systems, Bachelor of Computer and Information Sciences Business Systems at Monash University
Github Skills (13)
transparency10
traceability10
algorand10
solidity10
blockchain-platform10
blockstack10
blockchain-network10
ethereum10
blockchain10
security6
python5
privacy4
computer-science4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
FoodPrintLabs/foodprint
Jul 2019 - Jan 2023
Algorand dApp for blockchain-enabled food transparency and traceability in local food supply chains. For use by smallholder farmers, food co-operatives and consumers.
Contributions:1 release, 34 reviews, 731 commits in 3 years 7 months
local-foodfood-supply-chainblockstackblockchain-platformethereum
jajukajulz/teaching
Mar 2021 - Jun 2023
The repository for all my teaching material. Feel free to use it at will with attribution of source.
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 36 pushes in 2 years 3 months
pythonteachingattributioncomputer-sciencefree-to-use
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