Kago Kagichiri
Board Member - Product & Intelligence at Azizi Africa
Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolKago Kagichiri is a product and engineering leader with over 12 years of experience building low-bandwidth, omni-channel systems that expand access to education, finance and commerce across Africa. As a co-founder of Eneza Education and later product/innovation lead roles at Wasoko and Shara, he has scaled mobile-first platforms to millions of users and launched data-light services like SMS, USSD and no-JS web that work on feature phones. He combines hands-on prototyping and systems architecture with board-level strategy, advising startups on AI-enabled information management, PAYGO lending infrastructure and field-led logistics. Kago’s specialty is turning constrained connectivity and legacy operations into simple, customer-driven products that can be deployed rapidly and iterated in market. He is based in Nairobi and is known for mentoring engineers and embedding product thinking into operational teams to deliver measurable social impact.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Business, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Business, Information Technology at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT)Starehe Boys Centre and School
English, Swahili
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (65)
bots10
conversational-ui10
prompt10
sdk10
nlp10
chatbot10
conversation10
agent10
bot-framework10
langchain10
conversations10
chatgpt9
machine-learning-algorithms9
botpress9
conversational-ai9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kulemantu/compose-platforms
May 2020 - Nov 2022
Proxy-enabled open source platforms via Docker-Compose
Contributions:58 commits, 32 PRs, 54 pushes in 2 years 6 months
nginxproxyplatformsdockercompose
shara-inc/compose-platforms
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
Proxy-enabled open source platforms via Docker-Compose
Contributions:11 pushes, 2 branches in 5 days
nginxproxyzulipplatformsdocker
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