Kara Diaby
Founder & CEO at Repat Africa
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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RockstarKara Diaby is the founder and CEO of Repat Africa, a Paris-based venture mobilizing over 400 diaspora professionals to channel skills, knowledge, and capital into African projects. With nine years of cross-functional experience spanning product growth, React.js development, and operations leadership, she blends hands-on technical fluency with strategic investor and founder instincts. Her background includes growth engineering at Comet, teaching at Le Wagon, and early logistics and project management roles at Bosch and Caterpillar, giving her a rare mix of startup-scale execution and operational rigor. As a seed investor in Kemet Automotive, she actively bridges entrepreneurial networks and capital flows into emerging African markets. Colleagues describe her as mission-driven and pragmatic, focused on creating mutually beneficial, scalable solutions for the continent.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (11)
typescript10
mat10
react10
drawing6
mapbox-gl5
draw5
mapbox-gl-js5
javascript5
javscript3
js1
nextjs1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kara22/hubspot-auto-prospection
May 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:21 commits, 13 pushes in 9 days
kara22/beta.gouv.fr
Feb 2020 - Jan 2024
Le site public de l'Incubateur de Services Numériques de l'État
Contributions:2 pushes in 3 years 11 months
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