About
I grew up in a small village called Ngyeku in northern Tanzania. The path from there to the work I do now has been shaped, almost entirely, by people who chose to invest in me when they didn't have to.
The course of my life changed when I was twelve, when an education-focused NGO called The Foundation For Tomorrow (TFFT) found me and gave me access to schools, teachers, and resources I never would have reached otherwise. In high school, a teacher named Michael Sarungi sat me in front of a computer for the first time and introduced me to programming. I came to the US in 2017 to continue my studies.
For my undergraduate and master's degrees I've been supported by a generous American family who has stood beside me throughout my education. I count myself uncommonly lucky: I have two families now, one in Tanzania and one in the US, and the person I've become has been shaped by both.
The work comes first, and the work means the people on the other end of it. When I'm building something, I start by trying to understand who's going to use it and what their day-to-day actually looks like. The technical decisions follow from there. I think of myself as someone who's at my best when I'm building in service of someone: a stakeholder, a teammate, a user, a community.
I'm hardworking and I don't walk away from problems. If something's broken, I want to understand why; if a system is hard to maintain, I want to make it better. I see things through.
I'm comfortable working independently and figuring things out from first principles. My time at LTIMindtree (first as a Junior, then as a Senior Data Engineer leading a thirty-person team) taught me how much I value collaboration: how good ideas get sharper through real conversation, how shared ownership produces stronger systems than individual brilliance does. I thrive in ambiguity; I'd rather solve a hard problem with limited context than execute a clear task with no room to think.
I care about empowering the people I work with. As a senior engineer at LTIMindtree, the part of the job I found most meaningful was mentoring junior engineers and helping them grow into leadership roles. As a math tutor at Seattle Central College, I worked with students from around the world who were struggling with algebra and calculus. The work that compounds is the work that makes other people more capable.
Three years at LTIMindtree, where I was promoted from Junior to Senior Data Engineer and built enterprise analytics infrastructure on Microsoft Azure for Fortune 500 clients. A summer at SSA Marine building a production AI procurement agent. An MS in Data Science from the University of Washington (March 2026, 3.91 GPA). Currently building safarikingafrica.com, a CRM and marketing platform for a Tanzanian friend's safari business.
Across all of it, the discipline I try to bring is care at the seams: at every place where data crosses a boundary, where systems hand off to other systems, where users hand off to code. Most of what makes a production system trustworthy or fragile happens there.
I'm exploring data engineering, AI engineering, and customer-facing technical roles where I can build production systems that matter to the people relying on them. I'm based in Seattle and open to relocating.
Seattle has reeled me in for good. I'm a Seahawks fan first and a Mariners fan with patience. When I'm not at a screen I'm usually on a bike or out running, mostly to give the codebase the chance to think without me.