Nyimbi Odero
Chief Executive Officer at EA Digital & DataCraft
Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolNyimbi Odero is a CEO and technologist who turns impossibly complex national problems into operational systems, blending a theoretical-physics mindset with product-grade engineering across Africa. He led Africa's largest IT deployment—designing and building a biometric voter-registration system that enabled 73.5 million registrations—and today runs Datacraft, where he built Lindela, a sovereign, multi-classification intelligence platform used by regional bodies and national agencies. His career spans government advisory roles, hyperscale data-center strategy, Google’s West Africa launch, and multiple startups, always favoring build-over-buy solutions that prioritize data sovereignty and zero vendor lock-in. Comfortable across cloud-native stacks, AI/ML, knowledge graphs and CI/CD, he couples deep technical delivery with deal-making insight (e.g., framing tech as the value driver in a $4.5B joint venture). He’s as likely to architect mission-critical command systems as he is to rebuild a Land Rover from scratch—a practical demonstration of his hands-on systems thinking. Open to board seats, advisory roles and partnerships, he brings 30 years of cross-border problem solving grounded in measurable public-impact outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
EC (M&L), Entrepreneurship and Management, EC (M&L), Entrepreneurship and Management at MIT Sloan School of ManagementB.Sc, Physcis, B.Sc, Physcis at University of NairobiStrathmore
Latin, French, English
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Github Skills (71)
uwsgi10
authentication10
flask-restful10
gemma10
rest-api10
flask10
rest10
database-design10
google-charts10
mistral10
golang10
crud10
rbac10
llama10
obsidian10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nyimbi/AjiraNLP
Oct 2018 - Jun 2019
Contributions:5 commits, 3 pushes in 7 months
nyimbi/caseke
Nov 2017 - Sep 2022
Kenya Judiciary Case Management System
Contributions:4245 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
management-systemcase-management
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