Summary
Kipkorir Kirui is a Senior Product Manager with 14 years of experience designing and shipping user-centered products across Africa, currently improving Google Search for African markets. He combines enterprise experience from Microsoft’s Identity team—where he led authentication UX and a mix of IC and managerial work—with startup and consultancy chops as founder of Made by People and kirui.co.ke. He has a track record of growing teams and businesses, from scaling Made by People’s revenue and practices to building iHub’s consultancy into a stable revenue-generating unit. Kipkorir’s strengths are human-centered design, product strategy, and operationalizing data-driven growth frameworks in resource-constrained markets. Based in Nairobi, he’s known for bridging global tech practices with local insights, having led projects for Google NBU, the African Union lab, and impactful edtech products across Africa. Pragmatic and entrepreneurial, he often pairs hands-on design work with roadmap-level strategy to drive measurable user impact.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Technology, Bachelor's Degree Computer Technology at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT)