Nick Hargreaves is a founder and seasoned engineering leader with 13 years of experience building payments, banking APIs, and AI-enabled fintech systems across Africa. He has led technical teams through product pivots, acquisitions, and large integrations—from architecting M-PESA integrations at Beyonic to scaling banking-as-a-service at Lotus and embedding AI solutions at Choice Bank. Hands-on across backend, mobile, and DevOps, he blends day-to-day coding and infrastructure work with roadmap and team leadership. Now running Hiruko, he focuses on custom software, AI integration, and DevOps tooling to help businesses scale securely and efficiently. Unusually for a tech founder, his background is in chemical engineering, reflecting a systems-oriented approach to complex engineering problems.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Chemical Engineering, Chemical Engineering at Moi University
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