Summary
Samuel Sekiwere is a seasoned software engineer and co-founder/Managing Director of GoodCitizen Co. Ltd with 14 years of experience building pragmatic, mission-driven systems from Uganda. He led multiple eHealth initiatives for UNICEF and continues to focus on health and civic technology while serving as a software engineer at HISP Uganda. A computer scientist with First Class honors and postgraduate studies in information security, he brings strong technical depth in Go, Python and C alongside a practical appreciation for secure, maintainable architectures. Samuel is an avid open source advocate who steers his teams to reuse and contribute upstream whenever possible, improving long-term sustainability of projects. Colleagues describe him as an engineer-entrepreneur who combines hands-on coding with product thinking and a preference for measurable social impact. He often bridges technical and institutional stakeholders, turning complex public-sector requirements into deployable, user-centered systems.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Computer Science, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, MSc Computer Science, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Makerere University