Solomon Kembo
Technology Coordinator
Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSolomon Kembo is an Independent Consultant and Innovation Engineer with two decades of hands-on experience modernizing identity, security, and hybrid cloud infrastructures while prototyping emerging technologies. He builds end-to-end pilots that bridge research and production—examples include EdgeChain, a federated learning plus blockchain platform for community-owned agricultural AI, and an off-grid IoT aquaponics system that cut water use by 90%. Comfortable with enterprise stacks (Active Directory, Intune, DFS) and homelab/cloud combos (Proxmox, K3s, Azure), he translates complex R&D into reproducible MVPs and CI/CD-tested deployments. Solomon has led academic and community innovation programs—standing up a university innovation center, founding Zimbabwe’s first makerspace, and running outreach that turns student projects into funded smart-city pilots. He pairs technical depth in privacy-preserving ML, blockchain authentication, and IoT with practical operational experience in IAM hardening and automation. Based in Bethesda, MD, he thrives where scalable IT modernization meets community-focused edge and federated solutions.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Business Management and Information Technology(Honours), Software Engineering, Business Management and Information Technology(Honours), Software Engineering at Catholic UniversityCourseraMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of ZimbabweKutamaProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
st-peters-mbare-iot-makerspace/Energy-Efficiency-of-IoT-Cloudlets
Oct 2017 - May 2022
Contributions:137 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
st-peters-mbare-iot-makerspace/Proof-of-Privacy-for-Smart-Homes
Oct 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:18 commits, 1 PR, 15 pushes in 5 months
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