Fredrick Onyango

Fredrick Onyango is a Kenyan software developer and software engineering student whose work focuses on software engineering, smart learning technology and technology-driven education. He is the lead platform engineer behind Kilele Archade — the chief implementer of the entire platform technology.

Kilele Archade is built around a simple constraint: a learner in Kenya may be on a phone, on a metered connection, sharing a device, and responsible for their own schoolwork at the same time. Fredrick's work on the platform is mostly the consequence of taking that seriously — what runs on the data the learner actually has, what a teacher can see without a laptop, and what a parent can be told about their child without either of them becoming a data entry clerk. He is the lead behind the whole platform tech: the brain behind how it is built and shipped. (He is also, in a loose sense, a co-founder — but his role here is the engineering, not the founding.)