🧑💻 Experience
Technical Lead, Eluminate Labs Inc
2024 – Present • Remote - New York City, US
- 💡 Developed client-facing analytics dashboards with ReactFrontend
- 💡 Managed GCP-based API and database workflows at 99.9% uptimeBackend
- 💡 Implemented automated CI/CD pipelines and security upgradesDevOps
- 💡 Led engineering–product alignment to deliver on company objectivesLeadership
- 💡 Delivered AI-driven analytics improving engagement by 20%AI/ML
CTO & Co-Founder, HOVA AI
2021 – Present • Remote - Kigali, Rwanda
- 💡 Designed and implemented real-time analytics UIs. Vue.js & FlutterFrontend
- 💡 Built Python/Flask backend and MySQL pipelinesBackend
- 💡 Set up containerized services with Docker and KubernetesDevOps
- 💡 Guided product roadmap and pitched to investorsLeadership
- 💡 Integrated large language models into workflowsAI/ML
Software Engineer, MoodConnect
2022 – 2023 • Remote - Phoenix, AZ, US
- 💡 Created Vue.js interfaces for sentiment analysis resultsFrontend
- 💡 Optimized Node.js & MySQL backend integrations, reducing latency 83%Backend
- 💡 Automated AWS Lambda deployments and monitoringDevOps
- 💡 Mentored junior developers and led sprint planningLeadership
- 💡 Deployed BERT-based models for real-time sentiment analysisAI/ML
ML & Software Engineer, Insightiv Technologies
2019 - 2022 • Kigali, Rwanda
- 💡 Developed Angular frontends for diagnostic toolsFrontend
- 💡 Built Django & TensorFlow backend models with 92% accuracyBackend
- 💡 Integrated end-to-end AI/ML pipelines into web platformsFullstack
- 💡 Automated CI/CD with Docker, Kubernetes, and Elastic BeanstalkDevOps
- 💡 Led engineering team for medical imaging projectsLeadership
- 💡 Created COVID-19 detection models using TensorFlowAI/ML
Software Developer (Intern Team Lead), COSEKE
2018 • Kigali, Rwanda
- 💡 Built client-facing dashboards in ReactFrontend
- 💡 Refactored Java-like DSL backend workflowsBackend
- 💡 Coordinated and led the intern development teamLeadership
🚀 Projects
✨ DeepLoyd ML Deployment Tool
Flask & MySQL tool for one-click ML model deployment.
AI/ML✨ Uducupuri App (Java)
Android app to organize academic documents.
Frontend, Backend✨ Wound Infection Server
Refactored Django-based AI server for Harvard Medical School.
AI/ML, Backend✨ DICOM Connector Module
Connected imaging devices into diagnostic web systems.
Fullstack✨ Chrome Extensions Suite
Built productivity tools with JavaScript and React.
Frontend🏆 Achievements
- 🎖 1st Place, CMU Africa Startup Pitch Competition (2023)Leadership
- 🎖 2nd Place, Hanga PitchFest (2023)Leadership
- 🎖 MasterCard Foundation Scholar (CMU, Full Scholarship) (2021)Leadership
- 🎖 Country Winner, Zindi Hackathon (2022)AI/ML
🎓 Education
🎓 Carnegie Mellon University
MS in Information Technology • 2023
Specialization: Applied Machine Learning and Information Security
- Deep Learning
- Data Inference
- Algorithms
- Information Security
- Natural Language Processing (NLP)
🎓 University of Rwanda
BEng in Computer Software Engineering • 2021
Specialization:
- Algorithm design
- Systems programming with C#, Java, C/C++
- Performance-focused back-end development