Acknowledgements

Nothing on this site was built alone. These are the teammates I have built with, the teachers and mentors I learned from and those who trusted me.

Built with

NDAYAMBAJE Celestin: Built the first version of Uruziga with me in March 2022: a cooperative system over web, USSD and app, selected in the top 20.
UWAYEZU Jean Felix: Part of more of my work than anyone: Uruziga, HDEV TECH Ltd, the estate planning platform, TransFund and Medseal.
TWAHIRWA Djibril: Led our TVET Youth Challenge entry, which took third place and 1,000,000 Frw for Uruziga on 15 November 2022.
TURIKUMWENIMANA Daniel: Built with me on four projects, including TransFund, winner of the ICP Rwanda Hackathon, and Ndengera, second at the RISA challenge.
NSHUTI Emmanuel: On our team for both 2024 Internet Computer hackathons: third place with the estate planning platform, then the win with TransFund.
ISHIMWE Lea: My partner on Tryit, our AI virtual try-on project, and on the Ndengera team, second at the RISA challenge in December 2024.
UWINDATWA Marie Victoire: On the Ndengera team: an AI chatbot for people facing gender-based violence, second at the RISA challenge in December 2024.
NZAKIZWANIMANA Theoneste: An IT specialist I have worked with since the TVET Youth Challenge. He tested what I built, and we now work together at GeoTesta.

TUYIHIMBAZE Serge: Mentored our Uruziga team in the RP Tumba incubation programme, pushing us from features to customers, costs and sustainability.
ISHIMWE NKUSI Claudine: Business incubation specialist at RP Tumba College who mentored our Uruziga team through the programme it won in March 2023.
BIZIMANA Hubert: Mentored our Uruziga team in the RP Tumba business incubation programme, before Uruziga won first place in March 2023.
NIYONSHUTI Yves: AI lecturer at RP Tumba College who supervised Tryit and guided Ndengera and my capstone, the AI customer support centre.
NIYONSABA Vedaste: Academic supervisor of my capstone: an AI customer support centre on the web and by phone, defended on 12 June 2026.
MPOZEMBIZI Adrien: My software development teacher at Musamvu TVET School, who tested RASMS and gave me the feedback that shaped it.
MUNYAWERA Fils: At ICP Rwanda, he guided us to understand blockchain and start building on the Internet Computer, where we later built TransFund.

RUKUNDO Jean Damascene: Headmaster of Musamvu TVET School at the time, who trusted me with my first software and my first professional work in 2019.
Musamvu TVET School: My first client: it adopted my Excel report system in 2019 and has used RASMS since February 2020, for about 500 students a year.
RP Tumba College: Where I earned an Advanced Diploma in IT with First Class and completed a BTech, and where Uruziga was incubated to first place.
ITEC Ltd: The first company I served on a long-term contract: Software Developer from September 2024, Senior Software Engineer since July 2026.
Eng. NIYIBIZI Jean Pierre: Managing Director of GeoTesta Rwanda Ltd, who believed in me and entrusted me with the CTO role at GeoTesta.
And many others not named here: these are not the only institutions I have served. Others are private, so they are not listed. There is also a long list of people I have not named, including my family and the many individuals I have worked with. I am grateful to them all.