Gedeon NiyonkuruEngineering Impact
- 6+Years building
- $1M+Saved for organizations
- 5+Countries impacted
Born to make an impact
Birth - Kigali, Rwanda
My early years were marked by resilience, determination, and a commitment to making a positive impact in the world.
Foundations
Graduated with a BSc in Management Information Systems from Ashesi University, Ghana — where curiosity for systems and people first turned into code.
Mastery & Momentum
Earned an MSc in Information Technology at Carnegie Mellon University Africa, specializing in Data Science & Entrepreneurship — then joined One Acre Fund as an Automation Engineer.
Scaling Impact
Built automation and data pipelines in C#, Python, n8n and OpenFaaS — cutting manual work by ~80% and guiding program design across 5+ countries. Hand-coded, pre-AI era.
Event-Driven Systems
Stepped up as Software Engineer — shipping event-driven SAP–Odoo integrations in .NET Core and owning IAM with Keycloak, saving ≈ $1M/year. Pure, pre-AI craftsmanship.
The Agentic Era
Designing agentic AI workflows, RAG systems and multimodal tooling — building the next generation of intelligent, privacy-first software.
Entrepreneurship
Founded Merus Ltd, embarking on a mission to build high-end digital experiences, bespoke software products, and next-generation agentic AI applications.
SelectedProjects
Shipped production applications and open-source systems spanning cross-platform engineering, distributed data pipelines, and applied AI.
God Finder
Places & Times for Worship
A production cross-platform discovery application live on iOS, Android, and Web. Empowers users across the world to locate nearby places of worship and upcoming service times with offline-first geospatial caching, low-data modes, bilingual support (Kinyarwanda & English), and real-time community verification.
- React Native
- Next.js 15
Odoo Data Pipeline
A Docker-based analytics stack using Airflow to orchestrate an idempotent ETL pipeline — moving Odoo 17 inventory data into ClickHouse and Superset.
- Airflow
- ClickHouse
- Superset
- Docker
RAG Reasoning Agent
A privacy-first AI assistant capable of local document analysis and long-term memory retrieval — reasoning entirely on-device.
- LangChain
- RAG
- LLMs
- Python
AI UI Analyzer
An automated frontend analysis tool that leverages multimodal LLMs and LangGraph to evaluate the quality of website UI/UX layouts.
- LangGraph
- Multimodal LLMs
- Python
I build systems where technology meets impact.
I'm a Certified Scrum Master and AI Engineer with 6+ years designing event-driven backends, IAM solutions and agentic AI workflows — most recently at One Acre Fund, serving smallholder farmers across Africa.
My work lives at the intersection of engineering rigor and real business outcomes: decommissioning legacy systems, automating away manual toil, and turning data into decisions across Africa.
Toolkit
- Python
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- React Native
- Next.js
- C#
- .NET Core
- Java
- Spring
- Django
- NestJS
- React
- Vue.js
- PostgreSQL
- Supabase
- Airflow
- dbt
- Kafka
- Spark
- BigQuery
- Snowflake
- MongoDB
- LangChain
- RAG
- OpenAI APIs
- Hugging Face
- Keycloak / IAM
- CI/CD
- Education
- MSc IT, CMU Africa
- BSc MIS, Ashesi University
- Languages
- English · French
- Swahili · Kinyarwanda