Michael Orenge
Co-Founder & CTO at OCTAGON DATA SYSTEMS LTD
Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolMichael Orenge is a pragmatic software leader and entrepreneur with 12 years of experience building mobile-first, data-driven products from Nairobi. As Co-Founder and CTO at Agricap Ventures he shipped an app that gives smallholder tea farmers transparent digital scale tickets and an integrated data-mining mobile lending platform to prequalify advances and loans. He also founded iCheckNow, applying AI face recognition and BLE beacons to automate attendance and workforce management, and brings hands-on Android, RxJava, M-Pesa and biometric integration experience from roles at Octagon Data Systems and freelance work. Known for preferring elegant, efficient code, he blends product intuition with operational impact—turning domain knowledge of agritech and EdTech into systems that measurably simplify farmers’ and institutions’ workflows. Collected across startups and freelance projects, his work emphasizes practical innovation that improves accountability and access to financial services.
12 years of coding experience
Bsc. Information Technology Computer Software Engineering, Bsc. Information Technology Computer Software Engineering at DEDAN KIMATHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (DeKUT)
English, Kiswahili
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mikespux/M-ardhi
Jan 2016 - Aug 2023
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 8 months
mikespux/AndroidBluetoothScale
Aug 2016 - Jan 2019
Contributions:368 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 5 months
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