Ten years of it — at Google, Microsoft, Andela, SafeBoda and iHub. Roughly 1,300 engineers hired, and a lot of the plumbing that made those hires possible: interviewer pools, calibration standards, sourcing frameworks that didn't exist before someone sat down and wrote them.
Most recently I led technical recruiting across EMEA at Google. Based in Nairobi, Kenya.
Recruiting is usually judged on the offer letter. I'd rather be judged on what the function could do afterwards.
Across Kenya, Nigeria, Egypt, Rwanda, Uganda, Ghana, the UK and the US.
Six roles, one shape: arrive where the hiring function is thin or absent, build it, hand over something that runs without me.
Senior Technical Recruiter, EMEA
Led a team of technical recruiters against aggressive targets in some of the most contested engineering markets in Europe and the Middle East. Most of the value sat upstream of the requisition — reading where talent pools were shifting and telling business leaders what that meant for their headcount plan before they committed to it.
Lead Technical Recruiter, EMEA
Took the African Development Center into Egypt and Nigeria: no local hiring infrastructure, no engineering employer brand, 110+ engineers hired anyway. Grew the TA function from four people to twelve, and built the hiring-manager calibration training that moved offer conversion from 25% to 33%. Closed two searches the centre couldn't run without.
Technical Recruiter, EMEA
Held 24 engineering hires a month and finished the year 38% over target. The real unlock was interviewer capacity — I standardised technical interviewer onboarding and took the local pool from 15 people to 84, which was the constraint capping everything else. Also launched Game of Learners, a community upskilling programme that turned into a standing pipeline rather than a one-off campaign.
Global Head of Recruitment
Ran global recruiting for a company that had never had a recruiting function. Wrote the sourcing frameworks from scratch, hired software developers, and opened the Nigerian market.
Community Manager, Technical Talent
Hired and onboarded 1,200+ engineers across Kenya and Nigeria through Andela's steepest growth years, and led expansion into Uganda, Rwanda and Egypt. Built the Andela Learning Community from the ground up — it followed thousands of African technologists a year, most of whom never became a hire, which was rather the point.
Outreach Coordinator
Built the partnerships with Google, Intel, IBM, Microsoft and Oracle that put real technical training in front of 8,000+ students across 12 Kenyan universities. Spent three years in the room where Nairobi's tech ecosystem was being assembled, connecting founders, engineers and investors who had no other reason to meet.
I carry a requisition load while leading the team. It keeps my read on the market honest and it means I can coach on live searches rather than in the abstract.
By the time a role is approved it's already late. The work I'm proudest of is the community and upskilling programming that meant a pool existed before anyone asked for one.
Interviewer onboarding, scorecard discipline and hiring-manager training move conversion and bar consistency more reliably than any sourcing tactic. Unglamorous and worth the effort.
Senior stakeholders are better served by someone who will push back on a spec with market data than by someone who takes the order. I've built my credibility on being useful in that conversation.
Egypt, Nigeria, Rwanda, Uganda, Ghana. Each one needs its own compensation read, its own employer story and its own interviewer bench. None of it transfers cleanly.
Greenhouse, LinkedIn Recruiter, and the internal hiring stacks at Google and Microsoft. Recruitment analytics for planning, not for reporting after the fact.
Senior technical advisor at Kupa, helping growing businesses identify engineering talent through structured technical assessment.
Regular sessions for early-career technologists on breaking into big tech, including tech talks with GOMYCODE Kenya. Mostly an attempt to make the hiring bar legible from the outside.
Rotarian and board member with the Rotary Club of Karen, Nairobi.
Named among Kenya's Top 20 Disruptive People Leaders, 2023.
BSc, Business Information and Technology — Strathmore University, Nairobi.
Nairobi, Kenya. Working across EMEA and the US, and on the road often enough.
Open to conversations about talent leadership roles, advisory work, and ecosystem programmes worth building properly.