Building decision infrastructure for under-resourced systems — civic tools, community platforms, and developer primitives for East Africa and its diaspora.
I grew up in Nairobi. I now build from the diaspora — which gives you a particular kind of clarity about what's missing and what's possible. The tools I build are not charity. They're infrastructure bets on systems that already have everything they need except legibility.
County governments that can't see where their budgets go. Farmers who know the rains are late but can't get an alert. Parishes on three continents with no shared record of who was baptised. Chamas running on WhatsApp and trust. The problem is never the people — it's the missing layer between them and their data.
I also write. Americans and Their Things is a long-running field observation on American consumer culture through an immigrant's eye — because the outside view is always where the interesting analysis lives.
Reusable building blocks for the East African developer stack — packaged, documented, and designed to compose.
Open to collaboration with NGOs, county governments, diaspora organisations, and developers building for East Africa. I'm particularly interested in projects where the data problem is the hard problem.
contact@aikungfu.dev