Some faces behind Code of Africa. The CoA Circle is a bunch of like-minded people with one vision:
To create an environment in which East Africa is named as the top destination for IT services.
Anja
Managing Director
Regis
Full Stack Developer
Axel
Advisor Business Development
Hans
Advisor & Talent Scout Kenya
Joseph
Advisor HR & Research Strategy
Fabrice
Junior UI & UX Designer
Lionel
Back-End Developer
Yves
UI/UX Designer
Lancelot
Communication
Yannick
Back-End Developer
Tresor
Back-End Developer
Sam
Back-End Developer
Yannick
Full Stack Developer
Arsene
Front-End Developer
Promesse
Back-End Developer
Lewis
Back-End Developer
Herve
Back-End Developer
Landry
UI/UX Designer
Shimanyi
Full Stack Developer
Ali
UI/UX Specialist
Micha
Full Stack Engineer
Norman
Full Stack Developer
Anja Schlösser
Anja is a buying expert with 15+ years management background.
During this time, she established successful international business partnerships and trustful as well as appreciative relationships with stakeholders.
In addition to her feeling for people and numbers, she is passionate to contribute to social well-being of communities in Africa.
F. Regis Ishimwe
A developer with a passion for solving challenges,
different skills like web application and backend development.
The understanding of teamwork and learning spirit is, what enables him to do more and be more.
Axel Kuhlmann
After more than 20+ years experience in the Media-Industry, Axel established two companies for organizational & personal development in China & Hong Kong, which made him a matured coach in the fields of Leadership & Business Development. In addition, he is responsible for our communication in the client market.
Hans Stoisser
Hans is entrepreneur, management consultant, keynote speaker and author with a 30+ years’ experience in Emerging Countries, specifically in Africa. His company ECOTEC GmbH, a company for Institutional and Technical Infrastructure, has since been engaged in upgrading infrastructure projects all over the continent.
Joseph Vincent
A technology consultant and software tester at a leading consulting firm, Joseph has a passion for enabling growth and employment in developing countries through expanding the private sector. While advising our partner Awesomity, he lived and breathed the Rwandan start-up scene. He advises on our research and HR strategy.
Fabrice Niyimpaye
Currently interning at CoA, Fabrice as a Computer Science student is skilled with some
JS frameworks like Vue.Js for front-end development. For him designing UI/UX is fun,
but not as much as bringing designs to life.
Lionel Mfizi
Besides his role as CEO of our partner Awesomity Lab, Lionel is working on freelance basis as Senior Developer for CoA clients as well, depending on time and project scope. Lionel combines his smart mind with an awesome sense of humor - a combination we immediately fell in love with.
Yves Honore B.
Yves, known as HB, is the creative mastermind of Awesomity Lab and is working part-time as our UI & UX expert whenever we need some brilliant Mock Up or Graphic Designs, such as our company logo. HB’s smile is illuminating the same office space he has designed by himself.
Lancelot Sheja
Lancelot works as Communication Officer at Awesomity labs. Among her experience is Marketing and she is very passionate about literature and contemporary history. Lancelot is supporting us when we are reaching out to the local talent market and is currently pursuing a bachelor's degree in Marketing at the AUCA.
Yannick Kabayiza
Yannick is working with the executive management of Awesomity since day 1. Besides being a well-experienced Senior Developer, his job is to identify opportunities for growth & to monitor the latest technologies and social trends. Yannick is heading up the onboarding process of every new developer – for Awesomity and CoA alike.
Tresor Cyubahiro
Returning with a Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering from Barrett Honors College at Arizona's State University, Tresor joined Awesomity in October 2019 for a second time since 2017. With 5 years of experience and awesome mobile application skills, Tresor rocks – even without his drums.
Samuel Rutakayile
Whether building & deploying Restful APIs using Java and JavaScript frameworks or performing & carrying out software development best practices and standards – Sam always shine with both his personality and perfectionism. To be recognized also during one of his epic drum sessions :wink:.
Yannick Musafiri
Yannick is a full-stack developer with a 4 years’ experience in back-end and front-end development. Programming for him is not just a profession, but a hobby - something he enjoys the most. He is qualified in different technologies such as Ruby on rails, Laravel, vue.js and Kotlin amongst others.
Lewis Nkuranga
Lewis is a back-end developer with 4 years of experience, with competence in Laravel, Ruby on rails and vue js technologies. Apart from software development he’s also good at socializing with great communication skills - he believes that one should strive to give their best effort, eventually they’ll overcome their immediate problems.
Herve Ngenzi
Herve is a back-end professional developer, mostly enjoying mobile apps development,skilled in Java, Kotlin and swift for IOS. Technology for him is a modern way of solving problems and he feels responsible for solving them with his motto ”Make it work, Make it right, Make it fast!”.
Landry Gahizi
Landry, mostly known as “Bobo”, is a UI/UX designer, front-end developer and graphic designer. With 4 years of experience, Bobo is always expressing himself through his designs, he’s highly skilled and enthusiastic, always looking for ways to improve himself. For Bobo creativity is intelligence having fun.
Arsene J. Karema
Arsene is a UI/UX Designer and front-end developer, with 4 years of experience.He enjoys turning complex problems into simple ones and to create beautiful and intuitive interface designs. He focuses on creating meaningful user experience through a magnificent design. Arsene’s motivation quote is “Make it simple, but significant.”
Promesse D. Ishimwe
Promesse is a Back-end developer with 4 years working experience, especially skilled in Laravel and Node js. With his background in Electronics and Telecommunication he is both skilled and passionate about IoT Technology, currently using Raspberry Pi, Arduino and NodeMCU. Apart from that he is a socially active guy.
Shimanyi Valentino
Design Thinking Enthusiast, Software Developer (Python, JavaScript, PHP), Daddy and Tech entrepreneur - this is how Shimanyi, the CEO of our partner Sisitech Ltd., is describing himself. We urgently need to add that Code of Africa just loves his bright shining character, sense of humor and awesome leadership skills.
Ali Dennis
UI/UX Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in different fields in the software development space with well-articulated design philosophies. Ali spearheads the creative processes and is highly skilled in front-end software development focusing on web and mobile-based applications - whenever he is not DJing.
Mwangi Micha
Micha is both a software & hardware engineer with 5 years professional experience, where he has tinkered with different aspects ranging from embedded systems to software solutions at Enterprise level. Micha loves solving problems & creating products. Technology, being ubiquitous as it is, has allowed him to engage in these two passions.
Norman Munge
A Software Engineer located in Nairobi with 5 years of professional experience in developing mid to large-scale websites and web-applications. Passionate about technology, version control, software automation and skilled in software development (Javascript, PHP, Python, USSD) – while being a beautiful soul just gorgeous to work with.
Dear Client
Accelerate your growth in a sustainable way through our distributed team solution. By partnering with us you are guaranteed excellent service as well as knowing you boost the growth & development in East Africa.
Dear Developer
The CoA Circle is always interested in talents from East Africa who are constantly evolving
& looking for new challenges - for the benefit of our clients and for having fun in a great
community!