Led the creation of a new team to advance Windows AI/ML capabilities, setting performance baselines against competitors using advanced forecasting algorithms. Spearheaded Azure Open AI integration for benchmarking, enhancing data analytics. Directed AI Windows Stack benchmarking with MLPerf and implemented NLP for feedback analysis, improving product development with strategic insights. Focused on cross-functional collaboration and performance metrics to ensure competitive product positioning. Technologies used include .NET, Azure, and ML.NET, among others, promoting innovation and continuous improvement.Technologies:.NET, C#, C++,Windows 11, Windows 10, X64, ARM 64, Windows Drivers Kit, Azure Functions, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Open AI 4, Azure Storage, Azure Data Explorer, Kusto, Mission Control, Universal Telemetry Client, 1DS, Open Telemetry, Windows Performance Analyzer, Mac OS, Apple Instruments, WSL, Chrome OS, Azure DevOps, ML.NET: Binary Classification, Regression, Clustering, Python, Pandas.

A subsidiary of Atlancis Technologies that aims to tackle mobile money aspects and Social Networking principles on messaging platforms. Role entails creating and running the overall vision of the subsidiary, onboarding technical teams, designing, development, maintenance, testing and evaluation of all software components of the solution. Interacting with partners especially Telecom networks, Trust Holding banks and regulation bodies such as the Central Bank of Kenya and Communications Authority of Kenya.Technologies: .NET, C#, OAuth 2.0, WhatsApp Business API, Azure Functions, Azure Durable Functions, Entities, Azure Web jobs, Azure Cognitive Services (Face API, Computer Vision, Custom Speech, Bing Visual Search, LUIS), Azure Storage (Table, Blob), Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Service bus, Azure Application Insights, Audio recognition, Google Places API, Google YouTube API, Spotify API, Apple Music API, Google FCM Notifications, Android Cotlin, ML.NET (Time series, Clustering), GDI+Notable Achievement:Patents: • Vincent Mureithi Mugambi and Dan Kinywa Njuguna. METHOD, PROCESS AND SYSTEM FOR PLACING A MOBILE MONEY TRANSACTION VIA A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK KE/P/2018/2995.• Vincent Mureithi Mugambi and Dan Kinywa Njuguna. METHOD, SYSTEM AND PROCESS OF VERIFYING AND APPROVING MOBILE MONEY TRANSACTION VIA A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK KE/P/2018/2996.• Vincent Mureithi Mugambi and Dan Kinywa Njuguna. METHOD, SYSTEM AND PROCESS OF INITIATING AND INSTANTIANG A MOBILE INTERFACE FROM A MESSAGING PLATFORM VIA A COMMUNICAITONS NETWORK KE/P/2018/2997.

The role entailed working with leading content creators, publishers, and businesses in entertainment, sports, news, and many other verticals with one of the most important datasets in MEA to create analytics tools and systems that enable field organizations, analysts and clients alike. Mainly responsible for the 2Africa Fiber cable project, creation of .NET wrappers for the Facebook Social graph APIs, training and mentoring college students on Facebook APIs and their usage, OAuth 2.0 module for WhatsApp Business partner ecosystem, involved in developing offline processes to monitor, extract, index and build ML models (Clustering) and collaborating with other engineers to build demos and apps to showcase these services.Technologies:.NET, C#, OAuth 2.0, ML.NET, Facebook Graph API 9.0, WhatsApp Business API, Twilio

NeuroInnova is a data analytics firm whose objective is to unlock the power of data for small scale traders via a designed and built Mobile PoS system created on affordable devices that now leverages the Azure cloud platform to perform data analytics and time series forecasting. The amalgamated data is then provided to bigger enterprises who are interested in the data for forecasting purposes and consumer patterns. Role entailed creating and running the overall vision of the company, onboarding technical teams and customer facing program managers, designing, development, maintenance, testing and evaluation of all software components of the solution. Technologies: .NET, C#, Azure Web jobs, Azure Storage (Table, Blob), SQL Server, Hadoop, Azure Service bus, ASP.NET, React, Microsoft Project Orleans, SignalR, Android, MQTT, Azure ML.Notable Achievement:NeuroInnova was acquired in 2019 by Commercial Bank of Africa to drive its retail banking business to be tabled to the market as BizPawa.

Pesaprint is payments firm specializing in cashless systems for payments specifically in the transport industry. Areas of concentration include card systems specifically NFC enabled cards. It has numerous integrations to various payment gateways in Africa and Europe. Role entailed creating and running the overall vision of the company, onboarding technical, designing, development, maintenance, testing and evaluation of all software components of the solution. One of the major responsibilities was engaging technical partners (payment gateways, banks) to foster faster integrations.Technologies: .NET, C#, Azure Web Apps, Azure Storage (Table, Blob), SQL Server, Azure Service bus, ASP.NET, Angular, Android.Notable Achievement:National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) of Kenya on boarded Pesaprint as the preferred technology partner for the smart card driving licenses rollout all over Kenya.Patents: • Vincent Mureithi Mugambi. METHOD, PROCESS AND SYSTEM FOR MOBILE MONEY RECEIPTING VIA A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK KE/P/2014/301.

Owning the Technical Audience Marketing engagement plan for the East & Southern Africa region. Driving Academic technical evangelism and curriculum adoption by engaging students, faculties in universities and high school s in order to win mindshare of nascent developers. Lead marketing of the broad Microsoft platform and developer tools to deliver on budget revenue targets. Identifying key target accounts & partners to win the enterprise development platform and drive compelling evidence and customer references. Owning the overall ISV and Startup strategy for technical adoption.Technologies: .NET, C#, Azure, Visual Studio 2010,2013, Windows Phone, XBOX Kinect, Windows 8, SharePoint, SQL Server, SAP Duet.Special Projects:Government of Kenya Open Data: Technical Coordinator Engagement between the Government of Kenya and Microsoft to facilitate a platform for all data supplied by the Kenya National Bureau of statistics. Government of Botswana Innovation Center: Technical Coordinator • Master Plan • Local and International Market Sounding Initiatives • Phase I: Master Delivery Partner Selection and Workshops The center supports Small and Medium Enterprises, independent software vendors and new startup companies, as well as acting as a test laboratory center for the development of innovative software projects.Connected Kenya Organizing Committee & Microsoft Lead Connected Kenya is the brainchild of the former Kenya ICT Board (as of August 2013 known as the ICT Authority), ICT industry players and key Government of Kenya decision makers. The event was first held in 2009, with aims of establishing a platform for collaboration, capacity building and knowledge sharing between government and the ICT sector with a view of linking and hastening implementation of Government of Kenya ICT projects to world-class standards.

Formulating core innovation strategies for Telecoms in the Africa region. Securing superior innovative ability within Ericsson. Formulating Methodologies, structures & ways of working Group wide. Identifying and selectively engaging in major new business opportunities outside of the scope of business units. Focus on new important business opportunities in the Telecom Service Layer and means to execute business development of the selected opportunities. Creating a stronger public perception of Ericsson as an innovative leader in Telecoms. Partnering with all Technical Teams in the Telecom companies and third party companies with VAS telecom products.

As a solutions lifecycle manager and solutions architect, the role entailed Solution Control to mitigate any risks affecting agreed existing solution functionality as well characteristics. Evolution Analysis covers the future evolution of customer solution, improves its efficiency and ensure the solution is in line with the future business needs. Realization of changes covers the realization of the required agreed changes.Technologies: Charging System (CS 3.0 & 6.0), Ericsson Multiactivation(EMA), Ericsson Multimediation(EMM), awk, Erlang, Java, C#, XMLNotable Achievement:Awards: • CEO Henric Svanberg Global Award for High Achiever.

Serve as an expert for the entire Technology portfolio and optimize user experience of a high volume GSM functions and integrated mobile applications. Identify and translate system requirements into a prescribed architecture and design that meet business requirements and are aligned to GSMA architecture standards and principles. Collaborate within Enterprise Architecture and across Portfolio & Technology Directors, Project Managers, Project Architects, Resource Managers and Project Team members to enable the team to develop estimates, develop construction plans and prepare implementation approaches. Providing strategic thinking, solutions and roadmaps while driving architectural guidance for the business portfolio. Identifying business opportunities for potential solution development efforts and support portfolio in development strategic plans. Adopting and communicating new concepts, ideas, techniques, best practices and technology assistance. Working with vendors and product management areas to establish required infrastructure and frameworks. Developing Java applications to be utilized as USSD Web Services on a large scale for the entire Safaricom subscriber base of 15-20Million.Technologies: C#, ASP.NET, SharePoint, Oracle PL/SQL, TOAD, Java, Apache Tomcat, Sun Solaris, USSD, XMPP for SMS, SQL Server, Analysis Server, awk, COM+, SOAP, XML, IIS 6.0, ADSI (Active Directory Service Interface), Exchange 2000, Nokia Siemens Network IN, Huawei IN SMOI.

As an enterprise application developer, was in charge of the entire company intranet. Development of web modules to integrate to the various disparate systems e.g. billing, Oracle Financials, Banking EFT, PeopleSoft. Creation of Oracle PL/SQL Modules in Oracle financials and datamining via SQL Server data warehouse analysis server for Cubes.Technologies: C#, ASP.NET, SharePoint, Oracle PL/SQL, TOAD, Java, Apache Tomcat, Sun Solaris, USSD, XMPP for SMS, SQL Server, Analysis Server, awk, COM+, SOAP, XML, IIS 6.0, ADSI (Active Directory Service Interface), Exchange 2000, Nokia Siemens Network IN, Huawei IN SMOI.

Development of banking applications and web enabling the core banking systems which included: Flexcube Core banking system and Microbanker core banking system. Mainly responsible of converting all portfolio desktop applications to be web based. Working with a team of 60 developers in the data integration development subsidiary.Technologies: VB 6.0, COM+, ASP, IIS 6.0, Server side Visual Basic Script, Client Side JavaScript, Win 32 API, UNIX Reflection, MSMQ, Exchange 5.0Notable Achievement:Citibank Credit workflow system in Kenya and South Africa. ATM Bridges for I&M Bank, Akiba Bank, Standard Chartered Bank.

The role entailed designing and development of the Price Waterhouse Intranet portal which included the following cellular modules: Integration to SUN Accounting System, E procurement module, Timesheet module, Active Directory Integration and Service Billing modules.Technologies: VB 6.0, COM+, ASP, IIS 6.0, Server side Visual Basic Script, Client Side JavaScript, Win 32 API, Winsock , MSMQ, Exchange 5.0.

The role entailed creating dynamic websites for clients in East and southern Africa. Creation of corporate intranets for clients encompassing integrations to their various disparate systems.Technologies: VB 6.0, COM+, ASP, IIS 6.0, Server side Visual Basic Script, Client Side JavaScript, Win 32 API, Winsock , MSMQ, Exchange 5.0, Dreamweaver.

Software Developer September 1999 – May 2000Development of desktop applications that integrate to core banking systems and cheque readers. Creation of web enabled help desk systems for non-governmental organizations.Technologies: VB 6.0, COM+, ASP, IIS 6.0, Server side Visual Basic Script, Client Side JavaScript, Win 32 API, Winsock.