Peter Kakoma
Founder & CTO at Kanzu Finance Limited
Kampala, Central Region, Uganda
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Top SchoolPeter Kakoma is a founder and technical leader with 11 years of experience building scalable, resilient software and AI platforms that drive operational transformation across finance, telecoms, and e-commerce. As Founder & CTO of Kanzu Code Inc. and Kanzu Finance, he has architected multi-channel banking and AI voice/customer-support solutions that cut manual processing times from days to hours and sustain 99.9% uptime. He blends hands-on engineering—web, mobile, USSD, backend and cloud—with team building, training and productization, having scaled platforms used across East Africa and by global AI agencies. A former MTN principal engineer, he brings deep telecom VAS and large-subscriber systems expertise to product design and reliability engineering. Beyond commercial work, he runs a foundation that accelerates African tech talent through project-based training, reflecting a long-term commitment to building the region’s engineering capacity. Unusually for a founder, he pairs practical systems optimization with a knack for turning AI into pragmatic automation that saves time, money and stress for clients.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
St. Mary's College KisubiBSC, Electrical Engineering, BSC, Electrical Engineering at Makerere University
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (155)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kanzucode/kanzu-support-desk
Apr 2015 - May 2019
An all-in-one WordPress customer service ( support ticket ) solution for small businesses
Contributions:31 PRs, 183 pushes, 33 branches in 4 years 1 month
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kanzucode/londa-standard-edition
Nov 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:4 PRs, 55 pushes, 6 branches in 2 months
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